Sales Quotes

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he shewed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell.

If your organization’s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul, people will respond. They will connect. They will like you. They will talk. They will buy.

Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware.

I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll ever have!

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Stop selling. Start helping.

Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills.

Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.

I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel.

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people!

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency.

Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.

What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.

I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.