Top 44 Salesperson's Quotes
#1. Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.
George Madison Adams
#2. A salesperson's ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.
Ron Willingham
#3. 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
#4. Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
Sara Blakely
#5. I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.
Chris Lytle
#6. I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.
Nile Rodgers
#7. 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
#8. A good quant must be a mixture, too - part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician.
Emanuel Derman
#9. 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
#10. I asked Thomas what his special technique for sales was as a kid. He said he didn't have any. It was simply that "I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected." It
Atul Gawande
#11. A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.
John Turturro
#12. I lowered the gun but didn't holster it. Not just yet. She could turn out to be psychotic. Or a door-to-door salesperson.
Darynda Jones
#13. The impact on a customer of a bad buying decision is usually greater than the impact of a salesperson of a lost deal.
Donal Daly
#14. Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.
Jennifer Stone
#15. The best playing ground for a salesperson is on the field and not in his office " -
Murtaza Ebrahim
#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. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, the other guy has the best territory. The Successful Salesperson says, every territory is the best one. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, that company will never buy. The Successful Salesperson says, I can make that company buy.
Brian Tracy
#18. The entrepreneur must be the best salesperson and marketer in his business.
Robert Kiyosaki
#19. A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.
Zig Ziglar
#20. Confusion sets in when you're not sure if your product or service is bought or sold, or worse, if you are a salesperson just waiting for people to buy.
Seth Godin
#21. Good content is the salesperson visitors don't even know they want, and does a job that no salesperson can do: Sell without leaving your visitors feeling sold.
Stoney DeGeyter
#22. A person will buy something they really don't need off of a salesperson they really like before they buy something they desperately need off of someone they despise. ... Johnny Flora
Johnny Flora
#23. The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
Zig Ziglar
#25. If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#26. Learn to sell. In business you're always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you're selling. Don't sell your product. Solve their problems.
Mark Cuban
#27. 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
#28. Do you want to be an expert, or a master salesperson? You can only choose one.
Eben Pagan
#29. The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.
Philip Kotler
#30. You can become proficient with a computer. You can become a terrific negotiator or a super salesperson. You can learn to speak in public. You can learn to write effectively and well. These are all skills you can acquire as soon as you decide to and make them a priority. Three
Brian Tracy
#31. I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected.
Atul Gawande
#32. As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.
Harvey MacKay
#33. Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is about the same as advice for living with a plumber or a refrigerator salesperson.
Clyde Edgerton
#34. It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Jack White
#35. I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.
Allison Williams
#36. The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
Harvey MacKay
#37. Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
Uma Thurman
#38. If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#40. The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.
Mark Cuban
#41. You will be able to say you have done your best at selling when you satisfy your customers' needs on a steady and consistent basis. As a professional salesperson, you can't satisfy those needs unless you know what they are and appreciate the person who has them
Jack Carew
#42. I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.
Sharon Draper
#43. Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.
Jim Rohn
#44. A rich man is one who isn't afraid to ask the salesperson to show him something cheaper.
Jack Benny
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