Successful Selling Quotes

#1. Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you; what they say and what they don't say.

Diane Helbig

#2. I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

Steve Wozniak

#3. Your ability to build a successful sales career is in direct proportion to the quality and quantity of service you render on a daily basis.

Michelle Moore

#4. I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

Stephen J. Cannell

#5. Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

Freeman Dyson

#6. 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

#7. The value you get does not depend on what you have, but how much of it you bring to the market place. You don't get paid when you keep your gifts at home and go to the market empty handed!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show. I could feel successful without selling a million records.

Tom Petty

#9. I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.

Julia Child

#10. I can grow a pair.

Madeline Downs

#11. 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

#12. When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

Bob Parsons

#13. I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

Paz De La Huerta

#14. Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice that Hocking would prefer to write and hand over the editing, promotion, and selling to a traditional publisher.

Ellen Datlow

#15. What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

Tim Tebow

#16. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

J. Paul Getty

#17. The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

Ron Fournier

#18. Story-selling is the secret to successful brand selling

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#19. The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#20. The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Frank Arthur Swinnerton

#21. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

Richard Dawkins

#22. 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

#23. Selling is a form of serving the needs of others.

Troy Clark

#24. As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Oliver Goldsmith

#25. The Pork Marketing Board worked with advertising and marketing firms to position the pig as a sort of four-legged chicken - a healthy part of any low-fat lifestyle. The Other White Meat campaign launched in 1987 and was so successful at selling lean pork cuts, it actually hurt the rest of the pig.

David Sax

#26. The reasons why executives are scared of social selling are well documented. That being said, there are some hugely successful global business leaders using social selling tactics incredibly well - some of which even admit they could not operate without it!

Bruce Rasmussen

#27. Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.

Nenia Campbell

#28. Successful prospecting depends on selecting methods that you can effectively navigate. If something makes you uncomfortable, please don't do it.

Diane Helbig

#29. In short, boundaries help us keep the good in and the bad out. They guard our treasures ...

Henry Cloud

#30. The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.

Jerry Della Femina

#31. Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

Kathy Acker

#32. It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.

Jacoby Shaddix

#33. The effects you will have on your students are infinite and currently unknown; you will possibly shape the way they proceed in their careers, the way they will vote, the way they will behave as partners and spouses, the way they will raise their kids.

Donna Quesada

#34. Proactive and productive change is something that does not come easy for most people, yet is one of the main reasons successful people succeed.

Michelle Moore

#35. There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Clint Eastwood

#36. People need to buy and want to. The selling itself becomes the entertainment, the sought-after good ... In the Internet world there won't be any other way to peddle. To be successful advertising itself will have to supply real value to the consumer.

Peter W. Huber