Quotes About Salesmanship

#1. Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

Morris Hite

#2. The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

Ray Kroc

#3. Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

James Cash Penney

#4. To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.

Ruth Orkin

#5. ...that is what a salesmanship is all about: feign thankfulness when you want to slap at the opponent's face.

Girdhar Joshi

#6. Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.

Bruce Barton

#7. I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

Annette Bening

#8. What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.

Stan Musial

#9. This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula

Chris Murray

#10. After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#11. The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it

Frank Bettger

#12. There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.

Eugene H. Peterson

#13. Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

Barbara Corcoran

#14. It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

Hannah Arendt

#15. Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

James Cash Penney

#16. Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.

Wendell Berry

#17. Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer.

Paul G. Hoffman

#18. Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

J.B. Priestley

#19. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

Herbert Marcuse

#20. Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

Richard Halverson

#21. It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

Fred Wilson

#22. Something new seems to be at work in the contemporary world - a process that is eating away the very heart of social life, not merely by putting salesmanship in place of moral virtue, but by putting everything - virtue included - on sale.

Roger Scruton

#23. Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

Reginald Fessenden

#24. If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

Margaret Heffernan

#25. Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

Claude C. Hopkins

#26. I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.

Henry J. Kaiser

#27. Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

Phil Jackson

#28. He could sell snow to an Eskimo.
--Overheard in a Real Estate Office

Bob Eckstein

#29. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job

Chris Murray

#30. The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

Tim Weiner

#31. 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

#32. In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable.

Chris Murray

#33. Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve

Chris Murray

#34. Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.

Chris Murray

#35. Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

Walter Russell

#36. She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

Brooke Hauser

#37. Salespeople move an economy of a nation. Someone could have invented the most amazing invention that is going to be a revolution for a planet, but that product goes nowhere unless someone sells it to someone else.

Michael Delaware

#38. The commitment gap is the massive distance between "yes" and "maybe

Chris Murray

#39. The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.

Chris Murray

#40. Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always.

Honeya

#41. Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

Chris Murray

#42. Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises

Chris Murray

#43. It was a small of her back and her face that got so tired. Their (her retail employer's) mono was supposed to be, 'Keep on your toes and smile.' Once she was out of the store she had to frown a long time to get her face natural again. Even her ears were tired.

Carson McCullers

#44. You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.

Honeya

#45. 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

#46. We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer.

Chris Murray

#47. Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.

T Jay Taylor

#48. I would like to express how I regard salespeople in general. I consider they embody a unified and diverse aggregate of the most able individuals in society and its workplace. In any economy, they are among the most valuable to its continued existence. They alone move the economy of a nation.

Michael Delaware

#49. 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

#50. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs

Chris Murray

#51. 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