Sales Manager Quotes

#1. When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call?

Josh Turner

#2. Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.

Michael Delaware

#3. The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what's in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.

Kurt Busiek

#4. I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Willie Nelson

#5. I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.

Carol Bartz

#6. You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

Betty Grable

#7. Typically a command and control organization uses a top-down approach in allocating work: it defines a title for an individual, like Sales Manager, and then based on that tries to figure out what kind of tasks the person

Sebastian Klein

#8. We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

Jamie Hyneman

#9. My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.

Carol Bartz

#10. May God direct your path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?

Andy Weir

#12. The Sales Manager Question That Changes Everything How will this customer be different as a result of doing business with us?

L. McLeod

#13. Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.

Tom Araya

#14. If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

Tori Kelly

#15. From the CEO to the receptionist to the office manager, everybody at your startup business should know that one-minute elevator pitch.

Timi Nadela

#16. The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

A.J. Liebling

#17. Do it for joy and you can do it forever

Stephen King

#18. I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

Big Sean

#19. One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.

Hassan Blasim

#20. I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl.

Patti Stanger