The Ultimate Collection of Best Inspirational Sales Quotes to Motivate Your Success

### Unlock Your Sales Potential with Timeless Wisdom Dive into our curated collection of the best inspirational sales quotes that have motivated top sales professionals around the world. These powerful words from industry leaders, visionaries, and sales experts offer invaluable insights to boost your motivation, sharpen your skills, and transform your approach to selling. ### Why Inspirational Sales Quotes Matter Sales is not just about numbers; it's about mindset, perseverance, and connection. Our handpicked quotes emphasize the importance of building relationships, embracing challenges, and maintaining a positive attitude. Whether you're a seasoned salesperson or just starting out, these quotes will inspire you to push beyond limits and achieve your goals. ### Fuel Your Drive Every Day Use these quotes as daily reminders to stay focused, overcome obstacles, and keep your passion alive. From Zig Ziglar's wisdom on motivation to Tony Robbins' insights on goal-setting, this collection is your go-to source for inspiration that drives real results. Embrace the power of words and let these best inspirational sales quotes guide you on your journey to sales excellence!

Wisdom from the Masters

"You don’t have to be the smartest person in the room. You don’t have to rely on luck or getting a better territory. You just have to plan your work and work your plan. It works every time it’s tried."

- Kelly Riggs

Organization

"Refuse to attach a negative meaning to the word ‘no.’ View it as feedback. ‘No’ tells you to change your approach, create more value or try again later."

- Anthony Iannarino

Resilience

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

"To be seen as a credible and trusted advisor, every touch you have with a customer should provide added value."

- Sharon Gillenwater

Relationships

"I never lose. I either win or learn."

- Nelson Mandela

Persistence

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

Perseverance

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

Perseverance

"Establishing trust is better than any sales technique."

- Mike Puglia

Relationships

"Everything we want is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

Facing Fears

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

"Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

Relationships

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

Success

"Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line."

- Dan Waldschmidt

Motivation

"Every no brings me closer to a yes."

- Mark Cuban

Persistence

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

"People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Compassion

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

Belief

"You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

Generosity

"Don’t bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it."

- Peter Dinklage

Taking Risks

"Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on discipline."

- Jocko Willink

Self-improvement

"I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My Nation expects me to be physically and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight."

- U.S. Navy SEALs credo

Perseverance

"The top salespeople are usually the ones with the most activity; it doesn’t guarantee you will close more deals, but if you have no activity, you won’t be closing any deals."

- Colleen Honan

Drive

"How you sell is more important than what you sell."

- Andy Paul

Focus

"Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."

- Zig Ziglar

Focus

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

Motivation

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

Goals

"True nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

Personal Growth

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

Motivation

"Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Vision

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Overcoming Obstacles

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Time Management

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

- Bruce Lee

Hard Work

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find it was in vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

- T.E. Lawrence

Ambition

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

Adversity

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

Perseverance

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

Leadership

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

Aspirations

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

Integrity

"Some men see things as they are and ask why … I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"

- Robert Kennedy

Vision

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

Resilience

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

Choice

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Success

"Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion, and the determination to keep going anyway."

- Nick Gleason

Success

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over."

- Richard Branson

Learning from Mistakes

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

Resilience

"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

"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

Determination

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

Resilience

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts."

- John Wooden

Courage

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there"

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

- John Wooden

Self-improvement

"The best salespeople know that their expertise can become their enemy in selling."

- Mike Bosworth

Self-awareness

"Having the aspiration to be memorable is easy. The hard part is creating a crisp message you want others to articulate when you’re no longer in the room."

- Dr. Carmen Simon

Vision

"You don’t have to be liked to be trusted."

- Keenan

Relationships

"The greatest only become the greatest because they are willing to expose themselves to people who can help them become better. Your goal is to find those around who can and will do just that for you."

- Mark Hunter

Personal Growth

"Great sellers go into a meeting with multiple next-steps; this allows them to proactively respond if a plan does not unfold as planned."

- Tibor Shanto

Organization

"The focus from years of negative conditioning is to look at weaknesses or talents ranked lower instead of focusing on those strengths or talents ranked higher. To increase sales leadership we must begin with knowing one’s talents not one’s weaknesses."

- Leanne Hoagland-Smith

Self-awareness

"True productivity comes from allowing yourself to make mistakes. Do so, and you’ll succeed more often than any ten perfectionists."

- Laura Stack

Productivity

"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."

- Seth Godin

Taking Risks

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

Perseverance

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts."

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Talking isn’t selling and selling isn’t closing."

- Steli Efti

Insight

"The one thing you’re putting off or dreading? That’s your brain telling you it’s the thing you need to do most and next. Get it done. Stop dreading. Do."

- Nancy Nardin

Motivation

"Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

"Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen."

- Bob Burg

Empathy

"It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching, and closing. It is about listening, diagnosing, and prescribing."

- Mark Roberge

Focus

"The customer doesn’t care about features. They care about solving their problems."

- Trish Bertuzzi

Empathy

"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

Success

"If you don’t believe in what you’re selling, neither will your prospect."

- Frank Bettger

Belief in Self

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

Success

"There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits."

- Michael Phelps

Perseverance

"A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves."

- Harvey Mackay

Inspiration

"The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself."

- Tony Robbins

Self-awareness

"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

Empathy

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."

- Michelle Obama

Aspirations

"Engaging people is about meeting their needs—not yours."

- Tony Robbins

Empathy

"You don’t want to persuade everyone to buy from you; you want the right people to buy from you."

- Marc Wayshak

Focus

"People don’t buy from people they like; they buy from people who understand them."

- Marc Wayshak

Empathy

"Every goal in selling must be personal if it is to be compelling."

- Marc Wayshak

Motivation

"Selling is really about having conversations with people and helping improve their company or their life."

- Lori Richardson

Connection to Earth

"Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific."

- Seth Godin

Focus

"You earn the right to tell your story, when you start with theirs."

- Matt Heinz

Relationships

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

- Albert Einstein

Knowledge

"Buyers don’t believe anything you have to say to them about your product or service until they first believe in you."

- Deb Calvert

Belief

"You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise."

- Patricia Fripp

Service

"Customers don’t care at all whether you close the deal or not. They care about improving their business."

- Aaron Ross

Awareness

"I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard."

- Esteé Lauder

Drive

"Failure is an event, not a person."

- Zig Ziglar

Failure

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

- Jim Rohn

Success

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

Belief in Self

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

Resilience

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

Overcoming Obstacles

"Always do your best. What you plant now, will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

Hard Work

"Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

Motivation

"Winning starts with beginning."

- Robert H. Schuller

Motivation

"Quality performance starts with a positive attitude."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

Motivation

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

Motivation

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

- Bill Gates

Learning from Mistakes

"You don't compete on price. You compete on relationships"

- Patricia Fripp

Relationships

"Honest and transparent content is the best sales tool in the world. Period."

- Marcus Sheridan

Integrity

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

- William Clement Stone

Empathy

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

Time Management

"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

Connection to Earth

"90 percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion."

- Shiv Khera

Belief

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

- Jill Konrath

Mindfulness

"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

- Bo Bennett

Integrity

"Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers."

- Seth Godin

Adaptation

"Make a customer, not a sale."

- Katherine Barchetti

Service

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running."

- Christopher McDougall

Perseverance

"80% of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

Success

"Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

Self-improvement

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

Courage

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston S. Churchill

Positivity

"Focus on being productive instead of being busy."

- Tim Ferriss

Productivity

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

Success

"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor."

- Brian Tracy

Goals

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

Change

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Taking Risks

"Be so good, they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

Motivation

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

Ambition

"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-awareness

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

Hard Work

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

- Jim Rohn

Self-improvement

"Don’t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

Contribution

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

Education

"Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself."

- Rick Pitino

Self-improvement

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

Ambition

"I'm not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen Covey

Responsibility

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

- John Dryden

Personal Growth

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

Motivation

"Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes."

- Jim Rohn

Self-improvement

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

- Albert Einstein

Self-awareness

"You are now, and you do become, what you think about."

- Earl Nightingale

Belief in Self

"The more you learn, the more you earn."

- Warren Buffett

Education

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

- Mark Twain

Integrity

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

"All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust."

- Bob Burg

Relationships

"It doesn't matter where you start. Only that you begin."

- Robin Sharma

New Beginnings

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

Achievement

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

Hard Work

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit."

- Aristotle (kind of)

Personal Growth

"Don’t leave following up to months after a proposal, because the only thing you’re going to hear is “We went with someone else”"

- Tom Abbott

Persistence

"Don’t discuss price until you demonstrate value"

- Zig Ziglar

Success

"Listen more, talk less. That’s how you increase sales"

- Tom Abbott

Focus

"People don’t buy features, they buy benefits. Features answer the question what is it? Benefits answer the question what’s in it for me?"

- Tom Abbott

Awareness

"If you show people the solutions, they will be moved to act"

- Bill Gates

Inspiration

"Your role as a sales leader is to set your team up to WIN"

- Tom Abbott

Leadership

"The best sales people, they’re not doing all the talking. They’re doing all the asking."

- Tom Abbott

Focus

"The more you learn, the more you earn because you become more valuable to yourself, your company, and your customers."

- Adapted from Warren Buffet

Learning

"The future’s uncertain, but if you’ve got the right attitude and aptitude, it’s something that you can control despite challenging economic times"

- Tom Abbott

Optimism

"Sales really to me is not just about the outcome, but the output. You can’t guarantee outcome but you can absolutely guarantee and control the number of people that you reach out to."

- Tom Abbott

Focus

"Impossible is not a fact, impossible is just an opinion. It’s what you think. So if you can change the way you think, you can change the way you act."

- Adapted from Muhammad Ali

Mindfulness

"You’ve got to position yourself as an authority. Position yourself as indispensable. Position yourself as the only viable option."

- Tom Abbott

Leadership

"If you help your customers win, you are going to win."

- Tom Abbott

Success

"Attitude is a way of thinking that reflects in a person’s behaviour. Want to change your results? You’ve gotta change your attitude."

- Tom Abbott

Self-improvement

"A leader needs to have the ability to inspire people. A leader has to be able to move people to take action."

- Tom Abbott

Leadership

"There’s this implication that selling is like trying to get someone to do something, so you sell them on that idea. I don’t like that. I prefer supporting people in reaching their goals."

- Tom Abbott

Empowerment

"If you really want to reach your targets faster, you need to practice your skills and you need feedback on how to apply these techniques in your unique situations."

- Tom Abbott

Self-improvement

"If you want to know how to emphatise with your customers, have a genuine interest in. how they’re doing. The selling can come later ."

- Tom Abbott

Empathy

"It’s not about working harder or smarter. You have to do both. If the other person is working smart and you’re not, you will lose."

- Tom Abbott

Hard Work

"If you want to change your results, you’ve got to change your behaviour. If you want to change your behaviour, you’ve got to change your attitude."

- Tom Abbott

Self-improvement

"There are 3Ps’ that you need to focus on to get better at sales: Prospect for new leads, Position yourself as a thought leader, Present your solution effectively."

- Tom Abbott

Focus

"Instead of focusing on what you want, focus on what your prospect wants and you’ll both win."

- Tom Abbott

Empathy

"Stick to your top 3 ways of reaching a large number of your ideal target audience. Persistence and consistency beats intensity."

- Tom Abbott

Persistence

"Start with their problems, then follow up with your product."

- Tom Abbott

Focus

"Whatever is going to make that customer experience easier, smoother, faster, and seamless, is going to give your business a competitive advantage."

- Tom Abbott

Efficiency

"View the customer as a friend, not a purchase order."

- Tom Abbott

Relationships

"Find out what’s most important to your team and consistently remind them of their goals and how you are helping them achieve their goals."

- Tom Abbott

Leadership

"To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business."

- Harvey Mackay

Awareness

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

Learning

"Being interested is more powerful than being interesting"

- Ann Landers

Empathy

"Refining your prospect list to avoid wasting time on people who are unlikely to buy from you. That’s what we call qualifying."

- Tom Abbott

Efficiency

"Not every prospect will tell you their budget. You have to learn to ask better questions and be really creative about them to find out if your offering is in line with their expectations."

- Tom Abbott

Focus

"When people have autonomy and they’re self-sufficient, they feel more engaged in their work and more fulfilled. Are we providing our teams with that feeling of independence and autonomy?"

- Tom Abbott

Empowerment

"Get Past Gatekeepers. If you’re dealing with the decision maker, you’re going to close the sale."

- Tom Abbott

Achievement

"Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you."

- Tony Hsieh

Vision

"The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about."

- Seth Godin

Awareness

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."

- Walter Anderson

Motivation

"Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."

- Thomas Edison

Success

"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."

- Fred Rogers

New Beginnings

"Your past doesn't equal your future."

- Tony Robbins

Personal Growth

"Before you even think about starting to generate leads, you need to be very clear about who your ideal target customer is."

- Tom Abbott

Focus

"Start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you."

- Jill Konrath

Relationships

"Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

Determination

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

- Confucius

Wisdom

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

- Henry J. Kaiser

Optimism

"Every single lead is gold. So it’s a race for whom can respond to that customer the fastest."

- Tom Abbott

Motivation

"You’re only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and just hope that from that you can get your next job."

- Josh Peck

Persistence

"Share the content, spread the word. Talk about what you know and what you love. Leads will come in."

- Tom Abbott

Motivation

"Prospecting is all about knowing who’s your ideal customer profile, and where do they congregate in large numbers."

- Tom Abbott

Focus

"A-B-C. Always Be Closing."

- Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross

Drive

"On social media, you need to always be sharing your insights on topics that relate to your industry. This is how you establish credibility with your prospects."

- Tom Abbott

Influence

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."

- Ann Landers

Hard Work

"The reality is, and there are so many studies that prove this, you need to have at least, 4, 5, 6 touchpoints with someone for them to actually start really recognizing and noticing your brand."

- Tom Abbott

Persistence

"We’re not here to take part, we’re here to take over."

- Conor McGregor

Ambition

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."

- Robert Frost

Well-being

"Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre."

- Warren Buffett

Time Management

"So many people start at the bottom and they try to work their way up. Go to where the money is, and sell at the highest level possible and then go down."

- Tom Abbott

Ambition

"Don’t assume it’s about your sales process, it’s about their buying process."

- Tom Abbott

Awareness

"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance."

- Bo Bennett

Success

"Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell Ideas. Not stuff."

- Aaron Ross

Creativity

"Become the person who would attract the results you seek."

- Jim Cathcart

Self-improvement

"The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse."

- Jason Mason

Failure

"Business opportunities are like buses. There’s always another one coming."

- Richard Branson

Optimism

"Winners Anticipate; Losers React."

- Tony Robbins

Focus

"Today is always the most productive day of your week."

- Mark Hunter

Productivity

"When you are perceived to be like every other salesperson, the protective walls of the prospect go up."

- Marc Wayshak

Originality

"When you’re a high-fee expert, clients treat you infinitely better than when you’re begging to give your information away."

- Marc Wayshak

Self-confidence

"Think of yourself as a doctor, rather than a salesperson."

- Marc Wayshak

Insight

"When people give me all these great compliments, I thank them, but still go back to my room and practice."

- B.B. King

Hard Work

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

- John Maxwell

Leadership

"You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customers when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout the presentation, and watch your results improve."

- Harvey MacKay

Relationships

"Before LinkedIn and other social networks, in the sales world, ABC stood for Always Be Closing. Now it means Always Be Connecting."

- Jill Rowley

Change

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

- William Shakespeare

Self-awareness

"You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something in your life."

- Eminem

Courage

"There are three choices in life: be good, get good, or give up."

- Hugh Laurie (as House)

Choice

"Today, the salesperson isn’t the sole conduit of information to the firms. If the buyer has a poor experience with a seller, they’ll simply move onto the next channel."

- Mary Shea

Awareness

"Willpower is a finite resource in every person’s day – if a work environment contains elements that further promote distraction, rep productivity could be drained even faster."

- Peter Zink

Productivity

"When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you."

- Walter Payton

Well-being

"Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking."

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Self-awareness

"You can't turn a no to a yes without a maybe in between."

- Francis Underwood

Persistence

"If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."

- Chester A. Arthur

Ambition

"Never confuse activity with accomplishment."

- Lori Richardson

Productivity

"I thrive on obstacles. If I’m told that it can’t be done, then I push harder."

- Issa Rae

Determination

"We generate fears while we sit, and we overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

Facing Fears

"Losers have goals. Winners have systems."

- Scott Adams

Organization

"In business as in life, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."

- Dr. Chet Karrass

Leadership

"I found that if I just do the best that I can, in every moment I have, the future looks after itself."

- John Kavanagh

Self-improvement

"Leaders must get across the why as well as the what."

- John Doerr

Leadership

"High-level buyers want to talk to people who know more than they do. They hunger not for information but insight."

- Barbara Weaver Smith

Insight

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

Courage

"Yes is the destination. No is how you get there."

- Andrea Waltz

Persistence

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-awareness

"Realistically, at least fifty percent of your prospects will not be a good fit for your offering."

- Marc Wayshak

Awareness

"Know what challenges you solve, and only help people with those particular challenges."

- Marc Wayshak

Focus

"You and your services will immediately seem higher-value to the prospect when you ask them good, meaningful questions."

- Marc Wayshak

Connection to Earth

"If you were strong in the beginning, the end is the easiest part of the sale."

- Marc Wayshak

Focus

"Always call as high up as is relevant. Period."

- Marc Wayshak

Ambition

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

Success

"Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is ..."

- Paul Chek

Knowledge

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

Mindfulness

"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."

- Andy Warhol

Awareness

"Every email is an opportunity to test a different benefit or angle."

- Heather R Morgan

Learning from Mistakes

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

Contentment

"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."

- Gustav Mahler

Persistence

"Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff."

- Aaron Ross

Creativity

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

Perseverance

"Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot."

- Jim Rohn

Motivation

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

- Jim Rohn

Change

"The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average."

- Seth Godin

Ambition

"I don't have dreams, I have goals."

- Harvey Specter

Goals

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Awareness

"If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got."

- W. L. Bateman

Change

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement."

- Isocrates

Focus

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

- Elbert Hubbard

Taking Risks

"Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches."

- Harvey Mackay

Learning from Mistakes

"Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."

- Bill Gates

Persistence

"If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."

- Brian Tracy

Productivity

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

Failure

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

Responsibility

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Productivity

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

- Confucius

Learning

"If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will."

- Bob Hooey

Service

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

- Carl Jung

Self-awareness

"I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better."

- Abraham Lincoln

Teamwork

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."

- Albert Einstein

Learning

"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

- Paulo Coelho

Awareness

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Gratitude

"Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life."

- Alan Simpson

Balance

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-awareness

"Precision beats power, and timing beats speed."

- Conor McGregor

Efficiency

"You don't even really enjoy rest unless you truly deserve it."

- Joe Rogan

Self-care

"Worry is a misuse of the imagination."

- Dan Zadra

Mindfulness

"Timid salesmen have skinny kids."

- Zig Ziglar

Boldness

"use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

- Henry Ford

Success

"At networking events, don’t be that person that throws their card at every person and only says “Can I get your name card?”"

- Soco Sales Training

Relationships

"Making the call is making progress."

- Rework

Taking Risks

"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway."

- Robert Downey Jr

Boldness

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

Focus

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

Resilience

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking."

Belief in Self

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit."

Success

"Trust trumps transactions."

Relationships

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

Hard Work

"Never ever, ever stop following up."

Persistence

"For a leader, getting results is more important than getting credit."

Leadership

"Your self-worth determines your net worth."

Belief in Self

"When you feel like quitting: think about why you started."

Motivation

"Focus on progress, not perfection."

- Unknown

Motivation

"If you see it inside of your head, eventually you will see it in front of your eyes."

Vision

"Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat."

Adversity

"You need to be willing to lose if you're truly committed to win."

Perseverance

"Success happens at the exact moment you don't feel like it."

Motivation

"Sales enablement can’t be reactive. It has to be a full-blown strategy that’s woven into the fabric of the company."

Leadership

"Fortune favors the bold."

- Unknown

Boldness

"People are starving for decisiveness. If you give it to them, you will rule the world."

Leadership

"Expect the yes. Embrace the no. That's how you master the close!"

Persistence

"Do what others don't and you'll get what others won't."

Taking Risks

"Ask for the close early, and ask often."

Taking Risks

"Don’t wish for things to be easier, wish for you to be better."

Self-improvement

"Fear is your road sign to growth and success."

Facing Fears

"Your job in sales is to create moments of truth!"

Relationships

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself."

Self-awareness

"Never take a bet if you don't know how to win it."

Wisdom

"You can't sell others if you aren't sold yourself first."

Belief in Self

"Nothing happens until a sale is made."

Focus

"The most important promises you make are the promises you make to yourself."

Self-improvement

"If you don't take care of your customers, your competitors will!"

Responsibility

"Don't just work IN your business, work ON your business."

Personal Growth

"Today is a blank slate loaded with nothing but potential."

New Beginnings

"You can learn more in 5 minutes of self-study than in 5 years of studying the world."

Learning

"Coffee is for closers."

Motivation

"The difference between fear and excitement is the way you THINK about it."

Mindfulness

"Choose your hard."

Choice

"Kill your goals. Create habits instead."

Personal Growth

"I'm gonna turn my mentors into my peers."

Ambition

"You need to focus on moving forward rather than endlessly preparing to begin."

Motivation

"Business is simple; people make it complicated."

Simplicity

"No is not rejection, it is redirection"

Resilience

"Always be closing"

Motivation

"Yes and No are equally good answers. It’s the Maybe that crushes startups."

Choice

"Coffee is for Closers"

Motivation

"We're not just human doings, we're human beings."

Self-awareness

"Appreciation is the currency you pay the universe with."

Gratitude

"It's harder to be kind than clever."

Compassion

"The most valuable lessons in your life will most likely come from the most obvious places (in hindsight)."

Learning

"Good things come to those who hustle hard."

Drive

"Success breeds success!"

Success

"Clarity is power."

Focus

"The ordinary focus on what they’re getting. The extraordinary think about who they’re becoming."

Personal Growth

"Never sacrifice who you are, just because someone has a problem with it."

Integrity

"Past performance is not indicative of future results."

Awareness

"'I can' is 100 times more important than IQ."

Belief in Self

"Look for what connects you with other human beings rather than for what separates you from them."

Connection to Earth

"Hope is not a strategy"

Motivation