Sales Leadership Quotes:

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

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Leadership, Sight, Personality, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Life Determination, Decisiveness

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Leadership, People, Titles, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Management Motivation

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Graduation, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

- Zig Ziglar

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

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

- Ray Kroc

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Qualities Of A Leader

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're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Career, Career Women

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Clever, Innovation And Leadership, Too Much Power

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

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Commitment, Sports Leadership

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

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

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

- Sam Walton

source: Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Educational, True Leader, Inspirational Self Esteem

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

- John C. Maxwell

source: "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Young Entrepreneurs, True Leader

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

source: Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Reality, Funny Leadership, Workforce

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity

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

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Success Happiness, Joy And Happiness

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

topic: Leadership, Business, Character, Good Character, Inspiring Leader

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Life, Leadership, Insperational, Top Management, Put First Things First

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

- Robert Foster Bennett

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

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Keys, Top Management, Influencing People

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Fitness, Giving Up, Want, Motivational Exercise, Morning Motivation

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

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

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Wise, Men, Motivational Sales, Speaking And Writing, Inspiring Sales

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Leadership, Jobs, Business, Leadership Development, Leadership Style

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Leadership, Motivation, People, Leadership Skills, Qualities Of A Leader

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Stars, Lying, Moon, Creativeness, Inner Peace And Happiness

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

- Ben Feldman

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

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

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Want, Compromise, Be Careful, Motivational Exercise, Morning Motivation

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

- Witter Bynner

topic: People, Boss, Leader, Managing People, Funny Leadership

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, True Leader, Funny Leadership

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Persistence, Men, Creating, Marketing And Sales, Failure In Life