100 Quotes About Sales Effectiveness

Be yourself! Don’t try to fabricate your personality in the guise of impressing others. Ashish Patela

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash. E.a. Bucchianeri

When your pipeline is full — with business coming out of your ears — the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity Unknown

We all need salespeople who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER Unknown

Get up in the morning on a mission to save prospective clients from the shabby, ill-fitting, overpriced and worthless alternatives that those charlatans - who are your competition - are trying to get away with flogging them. Unknown

The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they? Unknown

Salespeople who think that it’s all about price aren’t required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation. Unknown

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides. Unknown

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived. Unknown

I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople — they simply don’t exist. Unknown

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill. Unknown

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid. Unknown

Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job — show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me. Unknown

If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door? Unknown

We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done. Unknown

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has. Unknown

For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past. Unknown

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed. Unknown

If you don’t earn their trust at the beginning, they sure as hell won’t trust you with their money at the end. Unknown

In this wonderful modern age, if you know what you want, you can just reach out and, with the click of a mouse, take complete control of your entire buying and shopping experience. Unknown

22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years. Unknown

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before — to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions. Unknown

Salespeople need to “Earn the right” to become suppliers more than they ever did before. Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve. Unknown

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess. Unknown

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone. Unknown

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

Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience. Unknown

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek. Unknown

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever Unknown

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you. Unknown

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

Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success. Unknown

Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question. Unknown

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

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail. Unknown

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

Finding happiness by delivering it. Unknown

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen. Unknown

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me. Unknown

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare. Unknown

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

You’ve got to be driven to become successful. Unknown

What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong? Unknown

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

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus. Unknown

I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help. Unknown

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver. Unknown

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

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend. Unknown

I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help. Unknown

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

Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time. Unknown

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally. Unknown

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not. Unknown

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof. Unknown

Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions. Unknown

How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance. Unknown

Who would be willing to put up with less than the desired result, if they could afford to have it done properly? Unknown

The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price. Unknown

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

I need a first-class reputation Unknown

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

Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals. Unknown

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

There can be no success in sales without tenacity. Unknown

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

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

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality. Unknown

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission. Unknown

Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important. Unknown

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

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

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not. Unknown

If your doctor told you that you needed immediate surgery could you perform it yourself? Unknown

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

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

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

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

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so. Unknown

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

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

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

From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people. Unknown

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

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

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