Top 70 Chris Murray Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.”

— Chris Murray

2. “There can be no success in sales without tenacity.”

— Chris Murray

3. “Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away.”

— Chris Murray

4. “Make sure everyone who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.”

— Chris Murray

5. “Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.”

— Chris Murray

6. “Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.”

— Chris Murray

8. “The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.”

— Chris Murray

9. “Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs.”

— Chris Murray

10. “In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.”

— Chris Murray

11. “If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.”

— Chris Murray

12. “Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.”

— Chris Murray

13. “Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.”

— Chris Murray

14. “If you wish to sell to anyone you must earn the right to do so.”

— Chris Murray

15. “People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain.”

— Chris Murray

16. “That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever.”

— Chris Murray

17. “Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.”

— Chris Murray

18. “Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.”

— Chris Murray

19. “It’s not how I view being a salesman. It’s how I live being a salesman.”

— Chris Murray

20. “Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.”

— Chris Murray

21. “Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.”

— Chris Murray

22. “Explain the value and justify the cost – People don’t mind paying; they just don’t like to overpay.”

— Chris Murray

23. “You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.”

— Chris Murray

24. “Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail.”

— Chris Murray

25. “Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses.”

— Chris Murray

26. “Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.”

— Chris Murray

27. “Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn’t you would already possess it, would you not?”

— Chris Murray

28. “Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.”

— Chris Murray

29. “Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut – up!”

— Chris Murray

30. “Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.”

— Chris Murray

31. “Don’t allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.”

— Chris Murray

32. “You – help – people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects.”

— Chris Murray

33. “You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.”

— Chris Murray

34. “Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.”

— Chris Murray

35. “Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.”

— Chris Murray

36. “What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.”

— Chris Murray

37. “Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?”

— Chris Murray

38. “No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.”

— Chris Murray

39. “I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.”

— Chris Murray

40. “It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.”

— Chris Murray

41. “Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.”

— Chris Murray

42. “Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn’t happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.”

— Chris Murray

43. “This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula.”

— Chris Murray

44. “Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn.”

— Chris Murray

45. “Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.”

— Chris Murray

46. “And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.”

— Chris Murray

47. “In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.”

— Chris Murray

48. “I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.”

— Chris Murray

49. “Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn’t have the first clue how to get you there.”

— Chris Murray

50. “We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.”

— Chris Murray