Advice Quotes

When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity

We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER

The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?

Salespeople who think that it’s all about price aren’t required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.

I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople – they simply don’t exist.

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.

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.

If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?

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

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

If you don’t earn their trust at the beginning, they sure as hell won’t trust you with their money at the end.

In this wonderful modern age, if you know what you want, you can just reach out and, with the click of a mouse, take complete control of your entire buying and shopping experience.

22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

Salespeople need to “Earn the right” to become suppliers more than they ever did before.

It is easier to define whether or not you can afford something than whether you need it in the first place.

Stocks may come and stocks may go, but food goes on forever.

Money is perhaps the single most important parameter which influences our decision when it comes to a job.

There is more to life than living to earn money.

There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing.

It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Women who marry for money and Men who marry for beauty are equally robbed in the end.

Money cannot redeem time.

Sacred heart begets happiness.

Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.

Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free.

But have a care! It is a bitter blade, and steel serves only those that can wield it. It will cut your hand as willingly as aught else.

If the path isn't in front of you, you can't choose to walk it." - Viriathus, Revelation

Err on the side of awesome.

Dear, he do have a problem.

Each of us will be remembered, either by those close to us or by those who have benefited from the greater good which we have done.

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

If an eagle is teaching you to fly, ignore the advice of turkeys.

Mindfulness is awareness of everything that is happening in the moment of 'Now'. Mindfulness is a self development technique that will change the focus of our mind towards happiness.

Now, I don't smile because I have a perfect life or even because I'm having a perfect day - I smile because that's how I choose to deal with whatever life throws my way.

Life is a series of such moments. And making each one matter means you’re living your life to the fullest.

You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.

If you make your own path in this thing we call life, you will forever know that it was yours and not someone else's.

Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

As long as you feel comfortable losing, you will never win!

Every adversity is the fuel for the soul. The greatest self-realization occurs during the greatest adversity.