Retail Sales Quotes:

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

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

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

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work.

- Jeffrey Gitomer

topic: Hard Work, Easier, Faster, Inspirational Selling, Lotion

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Jobs, Titles, Matter, Job Titles, Retail Sales

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

- Michael Schudson

source: Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.29, Routledge

topic: May, Advertising, Retail Sales

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Doors, Keys, Resistance, Referrals, Retail Sales

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

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Thinking, Winning, Situation, Sales Person, Inspirational Selling

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

- James Traficant

topic: Thinking, America, Yield, Sales Tax, Communist Manifesto

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

- Mark Skousen

source: The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 60, Nr. 3-10, (p. 7), 2010.

topic: Reality, Retail, Looks, Retail Sales, Interest Rate

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

- Naomi Wolf

source: Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

topic: Sex, Men, Would Be, Retail Sales, Estrangement

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

- Jo Ann Emerson

topic: Strong, Retail, Unemployment, Retail Sales, Rosy

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

- Bruce Bartlett

topic: Ideas, Dumb, Trying, Sales Tax, Retail Sales