Sometimes you just need a reminder to help you get pumped for your next couple hours of your sales work. Whether your looking for new prospects, preparing for sales meetings, or setting goals – these 101 Sales Quotes will inspire you to work harder, recognize opportunity and PRIME YOU to be your best self today. Enjoy!
- “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” -Tony Robbins
- “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” – Omar Periu
- “Prospecting – find the man with the problem.” – Ben Friedman
- “Well done is better than well said.” -Benjamin Franklin
- [bctt tweet=”“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak” username=”hookagency”]
- “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” -Jill Konrath
- “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
- “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” – David Brinkley
- “The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford
- “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.” – W. Clement Stone
- “Value the relationship more than the quota.” – Jeff Gitomer
- “Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see than you have time to see them.” – Brian Tracy
- “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” -Mark Hunter
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” -Sheryl Sandberg
- “If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren’t doing enough asking.” – Jack Canfield
- “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” – Henry Ford
- Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
- “Leadership belongs to those who take it.” -Sheryl Sandberg
- “To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship.” – Patricia Fripp
- “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” -Don Zimmer
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
- “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Keep yourself positive, cheerful and goal-oriented. Sales Success is 80% attitude and only 20% aptitude.” – Brian Tracy
- “As Winston Churchill said, ‘Never, never, never, never give up!’ (with ideal prospects).” – Aaron Ross
- “Customers don’t care at all whether you close the deal or not. They care about improving their business.” – Aaron Ross
- “Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues.” – Neil Rackham
- “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic.”- Dale Carnegie
- “Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Begin always expecting good things to happen.” – Tom Hopkins
- “Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.” – Tom Hopkins
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
- “Make a customer, not a sale.” – Katherine Barchetti
- [bctt tweet=”“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” -William James” username=”hookagency”]
- “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” – Estée Lauder
- “Most people think ‘selling’ is the same as ‘talking’. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job.” – Roy Bartell
- “Timid salesmen have skinny kids.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Your competition is everything else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.” – Don Cooper
- “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” -Winston Churchill
- “The key to mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you – how great you are, and what you do – to statements about them.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
- “High expectations are the key to everything.” -Sam Walton
- “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” -Jim Cathcart
- “Nobody likes to be sold to, but everybody likes to buy.” – Earl Taylor
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain
- “Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.” -Jeffrey Gitomer
- “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.” – Mary Kay Ash
- “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey
- “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
- “What we dwell on is who we become.” -Oprah Winfrey
- “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Don’t just make money, make a difference.” Grant Cardone
- “If we’re going to build a business, we not only need raving fan clients, we need a raving fan culture. Culture meaning everybody on your team works to create raving fan experiences. You’ve got to create raving fans if you want to be successful.” – Tony Robbins
- “The first part of success is ‘Get-to-it-iveness’; the second part of success is ‘Stick-to-it-iveness’.” — Orison Marden
- “On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire.” – Larry D. Turner
- “You sleep like you’re rich, I’m up like I’m broke.” Grant Cardone
- [bctt tweet=”“The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.” – Mia Hamm” username=”hookagency”]
- “You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them” – Ann Landers
- “Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” Dale Carnegie
- “To be interesting, be interested.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.” Dale Carnegie
- “You’ll never be admired without being criticized first.” – Grant Cardone
- “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect’s mind.” – Zig Ziglar
- “When you do more than you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do.” – Zig Ziglar
- “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” -Babe Ruth
- “The more you complain about your problems, the more problems you will have to complain about.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Deadlines aren’t bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities.” – Harvey Mackay
- “If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It’s an important skill to develop.” – Harvey Mackay
- “Every adventure will contain experiences you would never want.” – Grant Cardone
- [bctt tweet=”“Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others.” – Daniel Pink” username=”hookagency”]
- “Salespeople don’t want to be sold to the way they’re selling and they should admit that.” -Seth Godin
- “Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.” – Grant Cardone
- “The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to sales” – Daniel Pink
- “Never lower your target; increase your actions.” – Grant Cardone
- “Salespeople exist to discover where desire is and then deliver on that desire.” -Seth Godin
- “Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.” – Dan Waldschmidt
- “If you wouldn’t kick down your customer’s door and spit sales facts in his face in person, then don’t do it with your calls and emails.” – Dan Waldschmidt
- “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.” – David Ogilvy
- “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.” – David Ogilvy
- “I still work hard to know my business. I’m continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I’m always selling. Always.” – Mark Cuban
- “Never lower your price, add value.” – Grant Cardone
- “The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.” – Napoleon Hill
- What a great salesperson does is bring emotion to the table.” -Seth Godin
- “I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It’s always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.” – Mark Cuban
- “Quality performance (and quality service) starts with a positive attitude.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
- “Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility.” Grant Cardone
- “Never be romantic about how you make your money.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
- “You don’t offer any real value, until you close.” – Grant Cardone
- “If we didn’t need salespeople to put on a show we would just put out a memo.” -Seth Godin
- “I don’t want features, I want value. I don’t want benefits, I want value.”– Jeffrey Gitomer
- [bctt tweet=”“Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.” – Jeffrey Gitomer” username=”hookagency”]
- “Provide 51% of the value in a relationship, whether it’s with an employee, a client, or a stranger.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
- “If all you do is motivate, without a strategy, it’s like a warm bath. It’s nice. It’s not enough.” – Tony Robbins
- “It is not your customer’s job to remember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you.” – Patricia Fripp
- “The key to mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you – how great you are, and what you do – to statements about them.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
- “Stop selling. Start helping.” – Zig Ziglar
