- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
It will steal you blind."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
average minds by experience,
the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
But poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
But it cannot survive treason from within...
For the traitor appears not to be a traitor...
He rots the soul of a nation...
He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time.
Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Next level tactic when closing a sale, candidate, or investment:
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- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal
3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:
Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.
Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.
4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?
To get clarity.
You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.
It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”
Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.