100 Inspirational Sales Quotes to Motivate and Empower Your Selling Journey

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

- Winston Churchill

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Babe Ruth

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Henry Ford

"You either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

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

- Will Rogers

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

- Henry J. Kaiser

"80% of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Ann Landers

"Focus on being productive instead of being busy."

- Tim Ferriss

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

- Conor McGregor

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Dan Waldschmidt

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Be so good, they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Walt Disney

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

- John Wooden

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Tony Robbins

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Robert Kennedy

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

- Jim Cathcart

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

- Tony Hsieh

"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

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Shiv Khera

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

- Jill Konrath

"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

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Aaron Ross

"Make a customer, not a sale."

- Katherine Barchetti

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross

"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

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

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Marcus Sheridan

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

- William Clement Stone

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Nick Gleason

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

- Richard Branson

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- David Brinkley

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

- John Wooden

"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

"Confidence applied properly surpasses genius. There's nothing like confidence."

- Mike Tyson

"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."

- Tony Robbins

"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Aaron Ross

"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

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

- Og Mandino

"Quality performance starts with a positive attitude."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- Bob Burg

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

- Roger Staubach

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

- Bob Burg

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Harvey Specter

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- W. L. Bateman

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

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Robin Sharma

"Establishing trust is better than any sales technique."

- Mike Puglia

"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

"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

"Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back."

- Jan Carlzon

"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."

- Michael LeBoeuf

"There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."

- Sam Walton

"Direct selling is not about selling products – it’s about selling possibilities."

- Jordan Adler

"Success in direct selling is simply a matter of working with enough people in the right way."

- Mark Yarnell

"The beauty of direct selling is that it teaches you to close your own deals."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Direct selling offers what people need most: a chance to take control of their lives."

- David Bach

"The direct sales model is the great economic equalizer – anyone can succeed through hard work."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The person who talks to the most people wins in direct sales."

- John Maxwell

"Direct selling gives you the opportunity to face rejection head-on and turn it into acceptance."

- Dale Carnegie

"The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest."

- Simon Sinek

"Remember, you are not in charge; you are responsible for those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You surely can’t live long enough to make them yourself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Sam Levenson

"What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas."

- Jill Konrath

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

- Mark Roberge

"Selling is essentially a transference of feelings."

- Zig Ziglar

"SELLING is really about having conversations with people while helping them improve their company or their life."

- Lori Richardson

"Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients – those are the ones who stand out."

- Deb Calvert

"The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say."

- Thomas Freese

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

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Jill Rowley

"The key is not to call the decision-maker. The key however is to have the decision maker call you."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

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

- Barbara Weaver Smith

"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results."

- Warren Buffett

"There is no easy button in sales. Prospecting is hard, emotionally draining work, but it is the price you have to pay to earn a high income."

- Jeb Blount

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

- Ann Landers

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

- Bo Bennett

"Killer salespeople uncover true problems behind desired solutions."

- Aaron Ross

"If you harness the power of innovation, you’ll surely convert sales complexity into a brutal competitive advantage."

- Tim Sanders

"The sales compensation plan is Batman, while the sales contest is Robin."

- Mark Roberge

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Aristotle

"You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new"

- Steve Jobs

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

- Dan Waldschmidt

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

- Norman Ralph Augustine

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life."

- Jean Luc Picard

"The hours ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Lori Richardson

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

- Heather R Morgan

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- George Addair

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

- Isocrates

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

- Bill Gates

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Sharon Gillenwater

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

- Andy Paul

"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

"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

"The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary."

- Sam Walton

"People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic."

- Seth Godin

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission."

- Zig Ziglar

"You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do."

- Henry Ford

"If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?"

- Joe Namath

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. But it is courage that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The first part of success is ‘Get-to-it-iveness’; the second part of success is ‘Stick-to-it-iveness.”"

- Orison Marden

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you will surely get the result."

- Oscar Wilde

"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship."

- Patricia Fripp

"Sales success comes from the right balance of quality human interaction as well as appropriate use of supplemental tools."

- Deb Calvert

"BUYERS do business with you, not with your company and not with your technology."

- Joanne Black

"HUMANIZE the sales process or perish."

- Steli Efti

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

- Frank Bettger

"The story is the heart of the sale."

- Matthew Pollard

"If you do not have a defined process that moves your people forward so they can achieve greater results, then what is it you are managing?"

- Keith Rosen

"Numbers alone won’t fix anything. But they will help you identify where the problem is."

- Steli Efti

"The real problem with closing is not adequately defining or diagnosing the prospect’s problems in the first place."

- Keith Eades

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

- Alice Heiman

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

- Neil Rackham

"In high-productivity sales organizations, salespeople do not cause customer acquisition growth, rather they fulfill it."

- Aaron Ross

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

"Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients—those are the ones who stand out."

- Deb Calvert

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullsh*t story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful."

- Jordan Belfort

"Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they’re not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance if the circumstances around them suck they change them."

- Jordan Belfort

"I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed."

- Jordan Belfort

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"The key difference between successful individuals and others isn't just strength or knowledge; it's the will to keep going."

- Vince Lombardi

"The best way to sell something is to stop selling and start helping."

- Zig Ziglar

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

- Swami Vivekananda

"A successful warrior is an ordinary person with an unwavering focus."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Jim Rohn

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Issa Rae

"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."

- Les Brown

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

- Robert Collier

"The golden rule for every business is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Shiv Khera

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Seth Godin

"Remember, people don’t believe it when WE say it, they believe it when THEY say it."

- Shari Levitin

"Sales is not about selling anymore, but about building trust and educating."

- Siva Devaki

"Sales are a transfer of enthusiasm from the salesperson to the customer."

- Zig Ziglar

"I never lose. I either win or learn"

- Nelson Mandela

"Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring"

- Steve Maraboli

"On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire"

- Larry D. Turner

"All great achievements require time"

- Maya Angelou

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them yourself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"All great achievements require time."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Fred Rogers

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they are making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that is the difference."

- Lou Holtz

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Bill Gates

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific."

- Seth Godin

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"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

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

- Matt Heinz

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

- Jill Rowley

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Winston Churchill

"Never ever chase money. You should chase success, because with success money follows."

- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

- Christopher Morley

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

- Peter Dinklage

"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

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

- Deb Calvert

"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.

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

- Mark Roberge

"Failure is an event, not a person."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Winning starts with beginning."

- Robert H. Schuller

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."

- Walter Anderson

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Rick Pitino

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- John Dryden

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

- Ralph Marston

"Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Jim Rohn

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jill Konrath

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

- Mark Twain

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

- John Wooden

"The man who will 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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Seth Godin

"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

"Making the call is making progress."

- Rework

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Keenan

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

- Laura Stack

"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions."

- Jordan Belfort

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Bob Hooey

"The customer’s perception is your reality."

- Kate Zabriskie

"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

"Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong."

- Donald Porter

"Success is not about the destination but the journey."

- Zig Ziglar

"Face-to-face selling is still the most powerful human communication tool"

- Brian Tracy

"Every great business is built on friendship."

- JC Penney

"Direct selling is better than a graduate degree when it comes to developing skills for success."

- Jim Rohn

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Francis Underwood

"Losers have goals. Winners have systems."

- Scott Adams

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

- Dr. Chet Karrass

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure."

- Confucius

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

- Richard Branson

"Trying is winning at the moment."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving."

- Phylicia Rashad

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

- John R. Wooden

"Winners Anticipate; Losers React."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Mae West

"Change before you have to."

- Jack Welch

"Treat objections as requests for further information."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Walter Payton

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

- Helen Keller

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

- Jason Mason

"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

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

- Mike Bosworth

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

"Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming"

- Richard Branson

"Don’t try to do everything by yourself, but try to connect with people and resources. Having that discipline and perseverance is really important."

- Chieu Cao

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

- Fred Rogers

"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

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address."

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Hugh Laurie (as House)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Paul Chek

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

- Harvey Mackay

"Precision beats power, and timing beats speed."

- Conor McGregor

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

- Jill Rowley

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

- Albert Einstein

"The sales compensation plan is Batman, the sales contest is Robin."

- Mark Roberge

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

- John Kavanagh

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"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

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

- Eminem

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

- Mark Hunter

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."

- John Madden

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

"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

"There’s never any guarantee that anyone will like you. So if anyone likes you at all, you’ve already won."

- Chelsea Handler

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

- B.B. King

"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

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Never confuse activity with accomplishment."

- Lori Richardson

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Chester A. Arthur

"There’s so much creativity in brokeness, brokeness will have you making it work."

- Issa Rae

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

- Gustav Mahler

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

- Carl Jung

"If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be human, you’d be a game show host."

- Gabriel Heather

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

- Robert Downey Jr

"Your past doesn't equal your future."

- Tony Robbins

"Worry is a misuse of the imagination."

- Dan Zadra

"My sales objective is to get my prospects to look at my products the same way I look at bacon"

- Kurt Mortensen

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion."

- Tina Fey

"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

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

- Joe Rogan

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Andy Warhol

"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Alan Simpson

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

"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."

"There is always room at the top."

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because it does."

"High expectations are the key to everything."

"You can’t propose a mutually beneficial business relationship until you can’t understand their business."

"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."

"If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you surely don’t know what you’re doing."

"The customer doesn’t care about features, rather they care about solving their problems."

"Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect."

"Never ever, ever stop following up."

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

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

"Trust trumps transactions."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Success is never owned; it is only rented—and the rent is due every day."

"Good things come to those who hustle hard."

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

"Focus on progress, not perfection."

- Unknown

"Your self-worth determines your net worth."

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

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

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

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

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

"Nothing happens until a sale is made."

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

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

"Success is not about what you achieve but who you become in the process."

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

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."

- Unknown

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

"Success is not about luck; it's about hard work and persistence."

"Success is not about competing with others; it's about competing with yourself."

"Success is not about being the best; it's about being better than you were yesterday."

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

"Coffee is for closers."

"Clarity is power."

"Most salespeople throw darts in the dark, hoping something will hit."

"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference."

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

"Sales are not about pushing products; they are about finding solutions."

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

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

"Sales is not about convincing; it's about helping."

"Sales are about creating value for your customers."

"Sales are not about transactions; they are about building long-lasting relationships."

"The best salespeople are the ones who genuinely care about their customer's needs."

"Sales are not about closing deals; they are about opening relationships."

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

"Hard training, easy fight!"

"Business is simple; people make it complicated."

"The best salespeople are the ones who can turn objections into opportunities."

"Past performance is not indicative of future results."

"Emails that never get sent close no deals."

"Chasing perfection is like chasing the wind, it's highly futile."

"You don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training."

"The best salespeople are the ones who are genuinely passionate about their products or services."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"Success is not about the number of deals you close; it’s about the impact you make."