May
22
2016
Sales Quotes
You need a little inspiration. Every entrepreneur and sales professional needs a little inspiration at times.| throw one of these sales quotes into your next presentation, webinar, or eBook. Tweet them, like them, poke them.Whatever you want, they’re all yours.
Here are the greatest sales quotes of all time:
- To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business. – Harvey Mackay
- Remember that failure is an event, not a person.Yesterday ended last night. – Zig Ziglar
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. – Mary Kay Ash
- If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. – Bob Hooey
- Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect. – William Clement Stone
- I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard. – Estée Lauder
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. – Mary Kay Ash
- You don’t close a sale, you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise. – Patricia Fripp
- Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. William Bernbach
- How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. –Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. –Frank Lloyd Wright
- Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. – Zig Ziglar
- You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
- Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. – Karl Marx
- Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
- Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour day. – Zig Ziglar
- Your business is never really good or bad ‘out there.’ Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears. – Zig Ziglar
- People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons. – Zig Ziglar
- For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. – Tony Abbott
- If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
- Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can’t wait for it to be more than 50%. – Anne M. Mulcahy
- A good ad which is not run never produces sales. – Leo Burnett
- Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. – Michael Korda
- I didn’t really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest. – Tom Cochrane
- If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. – Zig Ziglar
- Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales. – Michael Schudson
- If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative. (via directcreative) – David Ogilvy
- If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. – Zig Ziglar
- If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. – Zig Ziglar
- For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.
- Stop selling. Start helping. – Zig Ziglar
- There’s no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you – unless your potion is hard work. – Jeffrey Gitomer
- So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. –Dorothea Brande
- You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. –Charles Robert Buxton
- When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. – Zig Ziglar
- The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi
- The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford
- The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips
- Every brand isn’t for everybody, and everybody isn’t for every brand. – Liz Lange
- The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse. – John Mason
- Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion, and the determination to keep going anyway. – Nick Gleason
- Most people think “selling” is the same as “talking”. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job. – Roy Bartell
- You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise. – Patricia Fripp
- If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. – Bob Hooey
- There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
- Timid salesmen have skinny kids. – Zig Ziglar
- If we learn from losing, we become winners in the end. – Anonymous
- Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. – Jeffrey Gitomer
- Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
- Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
- Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
- Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise. –Anonymous
- Make a customer, not a sale. – Katherine Barchetti
- Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert Schuller
- Integrity is what we do, what we say and what we say we do. – Don Galer
- Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
- He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. –Benjamin Franklin
- Fear is the destroyer of dreams and the killer of ambitions. – Jeffrey Benjamin
- The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say. –Tom Freese
- Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude. – Ralph Marston
- Today is always the most productive day of your week. – Mark Hunter
- Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. – Brian Tracy
- Try not to become a person of success, but try to become a person of value. –Albert Einstein.
- Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.