Motivation Quotes

"This is a metaphor for a brand-to-customer conversation. The brand will be played by the ogre, Shrek, and the customer will be played by his stalwart friend, Donkey. The brand wants to define itself. They want to put their position out there and say what they are, but the customer is reflecting back how they’re experiencing the brand and they have their own story. It goes a little something like this. ‘You know, for your information, there is a lot more to ogres than people think.’ ‘Example?’ ‘Ah, okay. Ogres are like onions!’ ‘They stink?’ ‘No!’ ‘Oh, they make you cry?’ ‘No!’ ‘Oh, you leave them out in the sun and they get all brown and start sprouting little white hairs?’ ‘No! Layers! Onions have layers! Ogres have layers.’”"

- Tristan Bishhop

""Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.""

- W. Clement Stone

""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

""There is no magic to closing. There are no magic phrases. Closing the deal is completely dependent on the situation.""

- Alice Heiman

""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

""When takes the role of a curious student rather than an informed expert, buyers are much more inclined to engage.""

- Jeff Hoffman

""Treat objections as requests for further information.""

- Brian Tracy

""Sales is an outcome, not a goal. It’s a function of doing numerous things right, starting from the moment you target a potential prospect until you finalize the deal.""

- Jill Konrath

""Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues.""

- Neil Rackham

""Be an example. Are you prompt? Are you professional? Are you engaged? As sales leaders, we have to set the bar high for ourselves as well as our teams.""

- Lori Richardson

""You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.""

- Jill Konrath

""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

""One of the best predictors of ultimate success…isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.""

- Daniel H. Pink

""Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see than you have time to see them.""

- Brian Tracy

""Keep the customer actively involved throughout the presentation, and watch your results improve.""

- Harvey Mackay

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

- Malcolm X

"Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice." Constructive anger," the demon said, her voice dripping sarcasm. Also known as passion," I said quietly. "Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful."

- Jim Butcher

""Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 percent is persuasion.""

- Shiv Khera

""Quality performance and quality service starts with a positive attitude.""

- Jeffrey Gitomer

""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

""If your sales have tanked, maybe the issue is not your lack of sales skills, but you are rushing the knowing and trusting aspects of the buying process.""

- Leanne Hoagland-Smith

""Customers don’t care at all whether you close the deal or not. They care about improving their business. It’s easy to forget this in the heat of a sales cycle.""

- Aaron Ross

"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

"Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential."

- Angela Duckworth, PhD

""You might think it’s Adidas but it’s nothing more than Abibas mate" - this line is for you to say the next time someone says, “life of a sales rep is too easy and fun.”"

"Always focus on how far you've come rather than how far..."

"Be the charge"

"Because I can"

"Prove them wrong"

"Energy draws attention"