Customers can be confusing. I don’t like to be confused, so I’m a little pushy. I want to know what a customer is thinking. I like to assume the sale. I assume from the start that my chances of making any sale are great right from the get-go. I know that this attitude has won a lot of sales for me over the years, and it continues to do so.

When I was young and running a group of retail stores, I had a mentor who used to tell me, “There are only two problems you can have in a tire store. “One, you don’t have enough cars, or two, you’re not working the cars you have.”

I learned a long time ago that winners win. It’s as though you can’t keep a winner from winning.