#Sales Quotes

“Timid salesmen have skinny kids.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Stop selling. Start helping.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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'.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with 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.'”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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