The best advice I ever received

As we go through life, people say all manner of things to us some good, some bad. From time to time, if we’re lucky, someone will say something that will have a profound, positive effect on our lives. For me, fortunately, I received my best business advice early on in my sales career.

Again, it was during the BP sales training programme. Our trainee group was sent to Christchurch to spend a day with the Sales Manager for the South Island. In the course of the day we heard quite a lot of what had already been covered, but then, and without any great fanfare, I heard these magic words…