100 Quotes About Sales Advice

Sales are a part of everyday life, whether you are selling groceries or selling your soul. This collection of sales advice quotes will help you deal with the stress, tips, and tricks of making it in the business world. Many people believe that they don’t need to manage their time well if they are successful at their job, but it is important for all professionals to learn to manage their time well, no matter the profession.

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Every failure if you let it is an opportunity to reinvent yourself and move forward. Jerry Gladstone
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Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will not be made for your benefit but for theirs. Unknown
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People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain Unknown
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Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not? Unknown
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You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there. Unknown
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Allowing yourself to be a conduit for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune cannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that well known saying, she has rarely been known to knock Unknown
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The fact that you wish to become extremely successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such. Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is what do you need to become? Unknown
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Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning Unknown
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If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel anything. Nothing at all. Unknown
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Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs. Unknown
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The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve. Unknown
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Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess. Unknown
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What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone. Unknown
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Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path. Unknown
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Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience. Unknown
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Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek. Unknown
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That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever Unknown
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My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you. Unknown
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Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had. Unknown
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Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success. Unknown
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Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question. Unknown
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I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy. Unknown
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In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail. Unknown
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I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice. Unknown
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Finding happiness by delivering it. Unknown
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Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen. Unknown
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I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me. Unknown
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Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare. Unknown
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You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both. Unknown
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You’ve got to be driven to become successful. Unknown
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What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong? Unknown
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In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements. Unknown
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Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus. Unknown
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I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help. Unknown
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I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver. Unknown
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Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin. Unknown
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I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend. Unknown
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I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help. Unknown
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It saddens me to note that there will always be con artists and charlatans in the world. Men who aim to fool the public by clothing themselves in the robes of experts. Unknown
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Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time. Unknown
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I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally. Unknown
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You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not. Unknown
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Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof. Unknown
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Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions. Unknown
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How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance. Unknown
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Who would be willing to put up with less than the desired result, if they could afford to have it done properly? Unknown
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The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price. Unknown
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In the past, I have bargained myself away, believing that price was more important than cost, quality, reliability, or reputation. In the past, I was clearly wrong. Unknown
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I need a first-class reputation Unknown
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In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party. Unknown
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Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals. Unknown
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If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight? Unknown
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There can be no success in sales without tenacity. Unknown
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Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside. Unknown
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It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience. Unknown
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Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality. Unknown
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Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission. Unknown
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Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important. Unknown
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You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door. Unknown
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Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left. Unknown
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In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not. Unknown
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If your doctor told you that you needed immediate surgery could you perform it yourself? Unknown
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Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn’t require a solution. Unknown
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Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs. Unknown
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You will never change a prospective customer’s mind, my boy. There is a chance that he might make a new decision if enough reliable evidence comes his way, but to do that he has to want to listen - to hear it - and that requires trust and respect. Unknown
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Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early. Unknown
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Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so. Unknown
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We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception. Unknown
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Where he comes from, the education he has received, his family history, his wealth, they matter not a jot, but the perception he conveys - that my, boy, is the key. If they believe he belongs - that he is part of the room - then he does, he is. And whichever room he is about to step into, then that is who he must become. Unknown
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If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide. Unknown
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From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people. Unknown
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His belief is so passionate that it fills him with the burning desire to share his fabulous news with anyone who will listen. He is concerned that it is us that might be missing out, not him. His faith in a single road to salvation and paradise is so intense, that it would be ungodly not to share the good news with all those who are not aware. Unknown
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This is how you must be. You must become as evangelical about your promised outcome as he is about his. You must believe that you, and you alone, have the solution to your prospects problems. Even if they do not recognise those problems themselves. Unknown
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Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied. Unknown
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You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best. Unknown
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A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches. . Unknown
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And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men. Unknown
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Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing. Unknown
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To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be. Unknown
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Unwittingly, I have sailed through my entire life, so far, with neither direction nor destination. I had a vague instinct to reach dry land every once in a while for supplies, but never anything more than that. Unknown
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It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen. Unknown
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The reward for living my life in this manner? An existence like that of a seagull picking up scraps from the back of a fishing boat. Surviving day to day. Nothing left for tomorrow and no idea what tomorrow should be. Unknown
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The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it. Unknown
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Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I strolled aimlessly through the years? Was I expecting my whole life to be some form of lucky accident? Unknown
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I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take. Unknown
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You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done. Unknown
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Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses Unknown
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Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they do so. Straight away Unknown
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And by making that plan you have differentiated yourself from more than ninety percent of the population. You are one of the few, who has a clear direction, a decisive plan of action. Unknown
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Sometime in the future, when business slumps and there appears to be no solution in sight, you will hear others moaning about and blaming the things that are completely out of their control, wasting hour after hour on elements, which cannot be changed. Meanwhile, you, my boy, you will be focusing your efforts on the only thing that matters. The response which ensures you reach your destination. Unknown
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You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble. Unknown
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You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you are willing to put up with if things don't go completely to plan, but something that still moves things forward ever so slightly? Unknown
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Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done. Unknown
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The future is a fabulous place to bury your success. Unknown
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Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things. Unknown
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All these ships are currently safe at anchor but that is not what they were designed for is it? Your job is not to remain anchored and safe. Your job is to move closer to your destination at every attempt. Unknown
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When things get tough, remember this mariner’s star. Bring to mind that everything external is designed as a challenge. A test sent to ensure you are actually worthy of acquiring your goal and reward. Recognise them as such and you will always find a way to go through, go round, or ignore them as required. Unknown
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Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible. Unknown
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No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality. Unknown