Greatest Sales Quotes:

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.

- Jill Konrath

topic: Encouragement, Motivational Sales, Inspirational Sales, Marketing And Sales, Inspiring Sales

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

topic: Success, Ambition, Goal, Inspirational Goal, Motivation Goal Setting

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Motivation And Determination, Dedication And Perseverance

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.

- Tate Taylor

topic: Educational, Stories, Retail, Lure, Retail Sales

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

- J. G. Holland

topic: Men, People, Secret, Great Sales, Sales People

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement, Unsuccessful, Journey To Success

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Attitude, Perspective, Salesman, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Selling

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

- Paul Tournier

topic: Confidence, Sports, Motivation, Great Attitude, Inspiring Sales

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marketing And Sales, Positive Attitude In Life

Every choice you make has an end result.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Choices, Choices You Make, Marketing And Sales

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

topic: Motivational, Success, Attitude, Marketing And Sales, Sales Person

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Success, Ideas, Mediocre Minds, Believe In Your Dreams

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

source: Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

topic: Being Strong, Encouraging, Encouragement, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

- Ann Landers

topic: Motivational, Success, Teacher, Working So Hard, Inspirational Hard Work

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

- Ray Kroc

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspiring, Success, Motivation, Marketing And Sales, Job Satisfaction

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marketing And Sales, Infinite Hope

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

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

- Zig Ziglar

source: FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 11, 2013

topic: Inspiring, Encouragement, Business, Marketing And Sales, Inspiring Sales

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

topic: Life, Spring, Adversity, Spring Awakening, Spring Gardening

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

topic: Positive, Shortcuts, Grad, Go Hard, Inspirational Graduation

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Motivational, Success, Failure, Inspirational Success Failure, Inspiring Sales

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

- Richard Bach

topic: Thinking, Winning, Battle, Inspiring Sales, Motivation To Win

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

- Charles Buxton

source: Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

topic: Time, Want, Had A Great Time, Managing Time, Just Live Your Life

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

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Business, Desire, No Trust, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Selling

Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

- Ben Feldman

topic: Inspirational Selling, Salespeople, Great Sales, Sales Leadership, Sales People

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

- Jim Rohn

topic: People, Succeed, Exciting, Inspiring Sales, Salespeople

It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Encouragement, Forever, Quality, Inspiring Sales, Sales Success

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence, Inspiring Sales, Negative People

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Team

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Love, Motivational, Family, Failure In Life, Sales Person

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouragement, Marketing And Sales, Lack Of Leadership

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Motivational, Positivity, Winning, Winning Attitude, Born To Win

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Good Life, Prepare For The Worst, Victory And Defeat

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

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Life Changing, Emotional, People, Marketing And Sales, Salespeople

A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.

- Robert Henry Grant

topic: Leadership, Running, Responsibility, Inspirational Selling, Car Salesman

The key is not to call the decision maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

source: Twitter post from Feb 13, 2016

topic: Keys, Decision, Motivational Sales, Sales Leadership, Greatest Sales

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Opportunity, Complaining, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Service

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Smart, Facts, Emotion, Marketing And Sales, Sales Person

Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.

- Bob Burg

topic: People, Golden, Selling, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Selling

Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

- Don Cooper

topic: Competition, Great Sales, Sales Team, Greatest Motivational, Greatest Sales

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

- William Bernbach

topic: Running, Business, Numbers, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Selling

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

- Zig Ziglar

source: "Smarter Branding Without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your Business at Little Or No Cost". Book by Brenda Bence (p. 91), November 7, 2011.

topic: Loyalty, Business, Educational, Customer Experience, Inspiring Business