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101 Inspirational Quotes for Salespeople

Motivational Quotes to Help You Always Be Your Best in Today's Challenging Business Environment

1. "I'm very proud of salesmanship. I think it's an American heritage. I enjoy going out and seeing customers and to this day, I keep in touch with what they need and want by going out in the trenches with my troops. I call on customers across the country. It's something I love."

Shelby Carter Jr.

2. "People buy products for what they can do, not for what they are. They buy products to solve problems.

Buck Rodgers

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3. "If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."

Henry Ford

4. "Ask customers what they want and give it them again and again."

Carl Sewell

5. "The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. "

Joseph Campbell

6. "You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."

Dale Carnegie

7. "I heard once that the average salesperson spends less than 25 percent of his or her time eyeball to eyeball with a customer. Well, I'm spending more than 90 percent of my time with customers, and I've got to think that's the only way an individual can make any money in sales."

Edna Larsen

8. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. "When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."

Nelson Mandela

10. "It's always too early to quit."

Norman Vincent Peale

11. "People do not respond well when they think others are trying to manipulate them."

G. Richard Shell

12. "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "

William James

13. "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

Nido Qubein

14. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

Jim Rohn

15. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

Albert Einstein

16. "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."

Abraham Maslow

17. "You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."

Brian Tracy

18. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

John Wooden

19. "The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."

Denis Waitley

20. "Essentially the first person you must sell if you want to succeed is yourself. I believe this is vital. When you believe in what you are doing, the other party evaluating your comments is going to react accordingly."

Martin Shafiroff

21. "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

22. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

Henry David Thoreau

23. "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

Napoleon Hill

24. "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

Michael Jordan

25. "My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out."

Ronald Reagan

26. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

Milton Bearle

27. "Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without."

James Allen

28. "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Walter Bagehot

29. "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

George Bernard Shaw

30. "The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."

Thomas Edison

31. "Marketing involves movement, motion and action. Marketing is not just a mental exercise but also includes emotional and physical factors, all combined to accomplish one major goal-the excgange of your prospects' hard-earney money for your product or service."

Joseph Sugarman

32. "Follow an expert."

Virgil

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33. "The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results."

Norman Vincent Peale

34. "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill

35. "You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

Pat Riley

36. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

Jim Rohn

37. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

Abraham Lincoln

38. "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

Benjamin Franklin

39. "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

Gustave Flaubert

40. "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

Leonardo da Vinci

41. "I never danced. It was more difficult to sell, but I made a special effort to be totally realistic with each customer, never misleading him about our ability to deliver. It may sound corny, but I was determined to establish the fact that my word was my bond.

Buck Rodgers

42. "It helps if you spend a few minutes vividly imagining the way it should look or feel to achieve your goal. Visualization helps engage our mind more fully in the achievement process and also raises our level of self-confidence and commitment."

G. Richard Shell

43. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

William Feather

45. "You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile."

Brian Tracy

46. "There's no abiding success without commitment."

Anthony Robbins

47. "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

Dale Carnegie

48. "You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

Wayne Dyer

49. "If you believe in what you're doing as strongly as I do it gives you the self-confidence to convince others to think along the same track. When I talk to another woman and tell her this is the greatest business in the world, there's no doubt she knows how much I mean it."

Bernice Hansen

50. "Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

W. Clement Stone

51. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

Tommy Lasorda

52. "I make every customer want to do business with me. From the moment he walks in, I don't care if I haven't seen him for five years, I make him feel like I saw him yesterday, and I really missed him."

Joe Girard

53. "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist. "

Queen Victoria

54. "One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears-- by listening to them."

Dean Rusk

55. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt

56. "Successful people usually are the ones who get up early to go to work. And because they do, they respect a salesman who's willing to do the same thing."

Joe M. Gandolfo

57. "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure."

Napoleon Hill

58. "Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half."

Paul "Bear" Bryant

59. "He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great."

Herman Melville

60. "Learn how the best really do it; make their systems your own. Then improve them."

Carl Sewell

61. "The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. "

Norman Vincent Peale

62. "A goal is a dream with a deadline."

Napoleon Hill

63. "A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."

Alistair Cooke

64. "It is never too late to be what you might have been."

George Eliot

65. " The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. "

Donald Kendall

66. "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

Rene Descartes

67. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T.S. Elliot

68. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

William Jennings Bryan

69. "Concentrate all your efforts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

Alexander Graham Bell

70. "No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime."

James T. McKay

71. "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart…. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

Carl Jung

72. "My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Helen Hayes

73. "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

Bill Gates

74. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Confucius

75. "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

Katherine Mansfield

76. "Every reason the other side wants or needs an agreement is my leverage, provided that I know those reasons."

Bob Woolf

77. "You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free."

Alice Foote MacDougall

78. "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell

79. "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

James Allen

80. "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

81. "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

Charles Dickens

82. "A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies."

William Wrigley Jr.

83. "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

Walt Disney

84. "Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost."

Henry David Thoreau

85. "Our intention creates our reality."

Wayne Dyer

86. "Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."

Anthony Robbins

87. "One today is worth two tomorrows."

Benjamin Franklin

88. "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

Wayne Gretsky

89. "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

Carl Sagan

90. "Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

Napoleon Hill

91. "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."

Denis Waitley

92. "You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

Damon Runyon

93. "Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you."

Norman Vincent Peale

94. "Keep learning. Develop in new directions. Adapt. Don't get locked into a set of skills or an approach that could become outdated. Be willing to bend, to adjust, because a repidly changing world requires new competencies.

Price Pritchett

95. "All men by nature desire to know."

Aristotle

96. "The key to success is to learn from the experts. Study and copy the very best people in your field. Do what they say, day after day, until it becomes second nature. And then - surprise! Surprise! You begin to get the same results."

Brian Tracy

97. "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

Jim Rohn

98. "Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

William James

99. "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."

Dale Carnegie

100. "In all my years as an automobile dealer, I have never had one person complain that our salespeople were too aggressive. I have, however, received far too many letters from people who felt we were not attentive enough."

Carl Sewell

101. "Many times the most direct way to get to a customer's problem, and often the only way, is to listen to him. Asking penetrating questions and listening to the answres; what could be simpler? Unfortunately, few people know how to listen, and salespeople are no exception.

Buck Rodgers

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