Salespeople's Quotes

#1. A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

Ian Frazier

#2. Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#3. Having enough other opportunities to work on is the best position a salesperson and his or her company can be in. A full pipeline gives salespeople the strongest position from which to negotiate - the ability to say no.

Keith M. Eades

#4. Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

Jim Holden

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

James Cash Penney

#6. When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It's the highest praise your boss can give someone on your team.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#7. Selling is not complicated. If salespeople consistently practice the fundamentals - getting up early, contacting prospective clients, sharing their belief in their products and services, following up with customers - they'll be successful.

John G. Miller

#8. I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.

Harvey MacKay

#9. Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

Chris Murray

#10. Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Brian Tracy

#11. Why should anyone buy anything from you if you don't believe in your product? There's a reason why confident salespeople are successful.

Timi Nadela

#12. [Politicans] are salespeople. Instead of rotisserie ovens they are selling this idea of preemptive war or social-security reforms.

Jon Stewart

#13. You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Seth Godin

#14. It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

James Cash Penney

#15. It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.

Brian Tracy

#16. Everybody has a product to sell - no matter whether you're an employee, a founder, or an investor. It's true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don't see any salespeople, you're the salesperson.

Peter Thiel

#17. What makes a good salesperson? Let me be clear that it's not the person who can talk someone into anything. It's not the hustler who is a smooth talker. The best salespeople are the ones who put themselves in their customer's shoes and provide a solution that makes the customer happy.

Mark Cuban

#18. Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#19. 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

Chris Murray

#20. That all salespeople are different, that all accountants are different, that each individual, no matter what his chosen profession, is unique.

Marcus Buckingham

#21. Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

Bette Midler

#22. Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.

Aaron Levie

#23. Buying market share by hiring your competitors' salespeople does nothing good for your reputation in the industry. Maybe you don't care when you're young and brash, but eventually you learn that reputation is a crucial business asset, worth much more over the long run than a few extra sales.

Norm Brodsky

#24. Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.

Jason Jordan

#25. There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

Daniel H. Pink

#26. Good salespeople inspire themselves. Great salespeople inspire others.

Timi Nadela

#27. Business people love to hate their current software and love to love the next software they haven't yet bought. Salespeople count on this. But tomorrow's tools will become the current tools.

David E. Wile

#28. I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Zig Ziglar

#29. Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service - and even worse, they don't have a strong enough belief in themselves.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#30. 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

#31. No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.

Clifford Stoll

#32. Salespeople must take time to research the prospect before the first call and then integrate that information into their call.

Josiane Chriqui Feigon

#33. Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#34. Salespeople using social media exceeded sales quotas 23 percent more often than peers not using social media.

Shannon Belew

#35. Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.

Robert Kiyosaki

#36. Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.

Arthur Smith

#37. if salespeople want to sell value and differentiate their product, they have to deliver insight that will reframe the buying vision so buyers end up with the solution that helps them overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.

Michael Harris

#38. 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

#39. Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail ... 15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor verbal and written communication skills. 15% Poor or problematic boss or management. 50% Attitude.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#40. Rules are in every company for everyone to follow. Eh, except salespeople.
Jeffrey Gitomer

Jeffrey Gitomer

#41. 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

#42. Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

Charles M. Schwab

#43. The business world traditionally rewards people for being closer to the top (case in point: outrageous CEO salaries) or for being closer to the transactions (investment bankers, salespeople).

Eric Schmidt

#44. All top salespeople have a highly evolved will all top leaders have a highly evolved will you see it's the will that gives us the ability to focus

Bob Proctor

#45. I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

Bob Colacello

#46. 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

#47. Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#48. Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

Marcus Buckingham

#49. The frantic stupidity of Wall Street's stock order routers and algorithms was simply an extension into the computer of the willful ignorance of its salespeople.

Michael Lewis

#50. I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Elizabeth Warren

#51. displayed and sold represented the very worst of what could go wrong when things weren't done his way. The salespeople, always interested in quick turnover, seemed to make little effort to understand what was special about a Mac, and had less incentive to do so after

Brent Schlender

#52. When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Al Neuharth

#53. Drug and medical device companies offered invitations to free dinners around town nightly. And there were over five thousand three hundred salespeople from some twelve hundred companies registered in attendance here - more than one for every two surgeons. The

Atul Gawande

#54. I've come to believe that there's a special place in hell reserved for wicked salespeople where they sit for all eternity being forced to answer their own Situation Questions.

Anonymous

#55. Treat objections as requests for further information.

Brian Tracy

#56. I have next to no interest in makeup as a thing in and of itself, and nothing stresses me out like Sephora's salespeople.

Andrea Seigel

#57. Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

Marc Andreessen

#58. Prospects get called everyday by salespeople. They can tell if you are a sincere or impatient sales person who doesn't really care about their problems.

Timi Nadela

#59. Salespeople on commission, for example, are seldom sensitive to the costs of the sales they produce.

W.Chan Kim

#60. 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

#61. Not believing in what you have to sell This is blindingly obvious but perhaps is the number one reason why many salespeople do not succeed. Not even the most accomplished actor can consistently get away with selling something they fundamentally don't believe in.

Simon Bozeat