Sales Quotes

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!

Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'.

The sale begins when the customer says yes.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.

Take more chances than you dare. You'll make more sales than you expect. That's the formula.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

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.

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

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

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

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

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.

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

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

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

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

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

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

You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.

[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade.

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

Consider Brazilian cosmetics brand Natura, which deploys a direct-sales force of more than 718,000. By knocking on doors, it has established a vibrant network of brand supporters.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

I live in Portland now. It's beautiful from day one. The Food and the beer, and no sales tax. Get your iPad while you're here.

Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.