{"id":148392,"date":"2022-09-30T23:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=148392"},"modified":"2022-09-30T23:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:49:22","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-william-wrigley-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=148392","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from William Wrigley Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nearly all buyers say \u2018No!\u2019 at first. Real salesmen stick until the buyer has used up his last \u2018No!\u2019.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many a man became my good friend and a customer simply because I would not take offense.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People do not buy much from a man who fails to command their respect.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even in a little thing like a stick of gum, quality is important.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When two businessmen always agree, one of them is useless.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone can make gum. Selling it is the problem.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The art of salesmanship can be stated in five words: Believing something, and convincing others.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A salesman has to master himself.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Wrigley_Jr.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220px-William_Wrigley_Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-148393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220px-William_Wrigley_Jr.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220px-William_Wrigley_Jr-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nearly all buyers say \u2018No!\u2019 at first. Real salesmen stick until the buyer has used up his last \u2018No!\u2019.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 January 26, 1932 &#8220;Many a man became my good friend and a customer simply because I would not take offense.&#8221; ~ William Wrigley Jr. September 30, 1861 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":148393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/220px-William_Wrigley_Jr.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148394,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148392\/revisions\/148394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}