100 Quotes About Selling

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution. Sonia Marciano

For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they–unlike most human beings–have the means of production, and human beings, because they–unlike all companies–have the means of reproduction. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Marketing without sales is dead. Richie Norton

Feedback doesn’t tell you about yourself. It tells you about the person giving the feedback. In other words, if someone says your work is gorgeous, that just tells you about *their* taste. If you put out a new product and it doesn’t sell at all, that tells you something about what your audience does and doesn’t want. When we look at praise and criticism as information about the people giving it, we tend to get really curious about the feedback, rather than dejected or defensive. Tara Mohr

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

Money is only a means. Lailah Gifty Akita

Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts. Richie Norton

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

A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book. Daniel Marques

If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping?? Ana Claudia Antunes

Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity. Farshad Asl

Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales... Honeya

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

Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones. Matshona Dhliwayo

Sell your materials but save your morals. Amit Kalantri

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of her characters were likeable. 'Perhaps it is because I don't like anyone, ' Highsmith replied. 'My last books may be about animals'. Andrew Wilson

One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really no bottom to where they'll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it - a bad photocopy of a bad photocopy of what was a shit idea in the first place - the more they'll eat it up with a big fucking spoon, from dawn till dusk, from now until the end of time. It's too good. John Niven

There is need to focus on selling an emotional experience instead of a mere product or service - the impression you make on others must be lasting and permanent. These experiences have to be positive and worth remembering. This will increase the chances of repeat business and referrals, guaranteeing customer loyalty. And that is what sustains businesses, brands and careers for generations! The principle remains the same for comedians, actors, footballers, musicians, sales executives or any other area of specialty. . Archibald Marwizi

You cannot offer quality experiences as an isolated island. Learn to work well with others on the success train. Respect those you work with and appreciate their contribution in making you the best at what you do. Archibald Marwizi

Your life is connected to other key support structures that you must never neglect, including family, fans, supporters, affiliations, professional associations, religious membership and others. Your membership to such groupings must add value to others whilst you equally get the benefit they are supposed to provide their members. Archibald Marwizi

No matter how great you are at what you do, as long as you remain known only within your own family circles, then you and your talent will die in obscurity and irrelevance. Position yourself to influence the masses by having a media, marketing and communication strategy. Archibald Marwizi

Tactical use of the media can be equated to power behind your skill or special ability. It is in the power of the media to help market your brand. You just need to look at Hollywood, European football, Bollywood, Nollywood, Global fashion & modeling, showbiz and even humanitarian efforts, to appreciate that the making and destroying of stars, initiatives and legends is to a greater extent influenced by the role played by the media. Archibald Marwizi

The key questions and challenges that we must all continue to pose and remind this key sector (the media) should be, 'Do you realize the power you have, to build and to destroy; to promote success or failure; to bring life or death to a cause or talent; to give a platform or take it away? Archibald Marwizi

If the African stars do not rise, are not known, remain obscure, their stories are not told — who and where is the African story teller? Your challenge if you are in the media is to continually ask if you are doing enough, using the appropriate strategies and at the right platforms. Let’s create and promote international and global stars with the talent and skills in our people, no one will do it for us. Archibald Marwizi

Work is simply, “force x distance” or the product of a force applied to an object and the displacement of the object in the direction of the applied force…holding an object in the air does not involve any work, no matter how painful your hand will be after a few minutes… reflect on your daily activities and the results from them. Are you really working or just increasing your potential without progress or desired results? Your work must produce some movement, progress and change, by effectively using all your energies whether intellectual or physical. Archibald Marwizi

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