Top 100 Business Sales Quotes
#1. Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.
Chris Murray
#2. Some salesmen think that selling is like eating - to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook - he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.
George Horace Lorimer
#3. It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.
David Livingstone
#4. Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#5. Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.
Jim Rohn
#6. Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.
Jim Holden
#7. I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
Zig Ziglar
#8. R.C. Willey is an amazing story. Bill took over the business from his father-in-law in 1954 when sales were about $250,000. From this tiny base, Bill employed Mae West's philosophy: 'It's not what you've got - it's what you do with what you've got.
Mark Gavagan
#9. Professionals never guess - they make it their business to know their business.
Michelle Moore
#10. Salespeople are the most vital people in any business. Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.
Brian Tracy
#11. In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#12. Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.
Chris Murray
#13. The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.
Frank Zappa
#14. An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
Akio Morita
#15. The Sales Manager Question That Changes Everything How will this customer be different as a result of doing business with us?
L. McLeod
#16. I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#17. Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.
Timothy M. Houston
#18. Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.
Ryan Lilly
#19. Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
Ben Horowitz
#20. In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
Radhanath Swami
#21. Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.
Bobby Darnell
#22. Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises
Chris Murray
#23. I like to look at things that have been developed and re-developed over the course of time so I know the bugs are worked out of it. And in the business itself, I like to look at sales, by far. I want to see that there is a vetted track record of sales to show the price point has worked.
Daymond John
#24. One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will," he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod, or an IPad might cannibalize sales of a laptop, that did not deter him.
Walter Isaacson
#25. Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.
Richard Yates
#26. Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut - spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.
Joel Greenblatt
#27. In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable.
Chris Murray
#28. The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.
Robin Sharma
#29. Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.
Bob Burg
#30. Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel.
Max Barry
#31. What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.
Larry Ellison
#32. How you promote yourself in the marketplace determines your success in the business world today
Timi Nadela
#33. When excitement and passion are evident, people want to be around you - including prospects. Prospects will want to do business with you because your joy is contagious.
Michelle Moore
#34. Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
Jewel
#35. Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.
Chris Murray
#36. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.
Roy H. Williams
#37. I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.
Bill Gates
#38. From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.
Timi Nadela
#39. The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state.
Craig Benson
#40. What's the best way to ensure your small business makes a profit? Without a doubt, it's to keep your overhead costs low, and maximize your sales per marketing dollar.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#41. No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don't even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.
Chris Murray
#42. If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.
Daymond John
#43. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job
Chris Murray
#44. CRM is rather boring in itself.
It's the fortunes you can build using CRM that makes it so interesting.
Michael McCafferty
#45. Present your product and service simple and direct. Eliminate senseless small talk that takes up valuable time.
Timi Nadela
#46. When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.
Jim McDonough
#47. Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
Bill Rancic
#48. In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.
Ian Lamont
#49. There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.
David Brier
#50. We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
Dave Ramsey
#51. Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"
to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.
Robert Ringer
#53. We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer.
Chris Murray
#54. When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.
Michael O'Leary
#55. A business without sales is just ego masturb*tion.
Dan Meredith
#56. In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.
Alan Blinder
#57. Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.
Kamisese Mara
#58. a lot of so-called health breakthroughs are not nearly as impressive as their marketing makes them appear. While it may be good business to spin the numbers to increase sales, it isn't good science. One
T. Colin Campbell
#59. So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.
Dan Povenmire
#60. Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.
T Jay Taylor
#61. Consider reading an inspirational book or listen to a podcast every day. You will maintain a library of positive thoughts in your head.
Timi Nadela
#62. Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?
Chris Murray
#63. You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.
Luke Bryan
#64. Cold calling is not dead. To grow your business, you have to call people you don't know and don't know you
Timi Nadela
#65. Once you're in sales, you will also learn what sells and what not. Use the sensitivity of detecting market sentiments as a platform for running your business and in the identification of product winners in the future.
Li Ka-shing
#66. Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.
Timi Nadela
#67. I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
R.A. Salvatore
#68. In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.
Keith Ferrazzi
#69. The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business - all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).
Daniel J. Levitin
#70. Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.
Janet Yellen
#71. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Chris Murray
#72. Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.
John Caudwell
#74. Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.
Dane Brookes
#75. Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.
Chris Murray
#76. The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
Jonathan Potter
#77. Active prospecting let's people know that they matter; that you've sought them out.
Diane Helbig
#78. E-Commerce makes it easy to spend money. Netiquette makes you aware hidden fees.
David Chiles
#79. For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Tony Abbott
#80. Plan your work and work your plan" we used to say in my first Silicon Valley sales job. Identify the steps you need to take to get where you are going. Without a map who knows where you'll end up! Certainly not where you intended to be.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#81. Before he became the most brilliant and famous man in the ad business, David Ogilvy sold ovens door-to-door. Because of that, he never forgot that advertising is just a slightly more scalable form of creating demand than door-to-door sales.
Ryan Holiday
#82. While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.
Richard Hayne
#83. Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
Chris Chocola
#84. In hypercompetitive world, the only way to make an impression on your customer is to break through the noise.
Timi Nadela
#85. Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.
Brian Tracy
#86. Don't believe the idea of "build it and they will come." Go in with your wide eyes open, you can have it all.
Timi Nadela
#87. I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.
Louis Navellier
#88. In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.
Henry Ford
#89. To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.
Harvey MacKay
#90. Friendly makes sales - and friendly generates repeat business.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#91. There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.
Daymond John
#92. In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
Jeff Raikes
#93. Advertising is legalized lying.
H.G.Wells
#94. If customers don't trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won't trust you with their money at the end of it.
Chris Murray
#95. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#96. Your brand is a combination of a customer's experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute to
your company's brand reputation.
Elaine Fogel
#97. advertising produces familiarity which produces sales
Paul Cookson
#99. I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.
Bernard Liautaud
#100. People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
Roy H. Williams
