"You either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
- Jim Rohn
Self-improvement
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."
- Henry Ford
Belief
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill
Success
"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
- Sam Levenson
Time Management
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky
Taking Risks
"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"If you’re going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
- Zig Ziglar
Belief in Self
"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
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
- Wayne Gretzky
Taking Risks
"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
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time"
- Thomas Edison
Persistence
"I never lose. I either win or learn."
- Nelson Mandela
Persistence
"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
"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."
- Jim Rohn
Change
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
Service
"I don't have dreams, I have goals."
- Harvey Specter
Goals
"The person who talks to the most people wins in direct sales."
- John Maxwell
Drive
"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Awareness
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
Success
"If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got."
- W. L. Bateman
Change
"The direct sales model is the great economic equalizer – anyone can succeed through hard work."
- Robert Kiyosaki
Hard Work
"The sales compensation plan is Batman, while the sales contest is Robin."
- Mark Roberge
Motivation
"Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches."
- Harvey Mackay
Learning from Mistakes
"Confidence applied properly surpasses genius. There's nothing like confidence."
- Mike Tyson
Self-confidence
"It doesn't matter where you start. Only that you begin."
- Robin Sharma
New Beginnings
"If you harness the power of innovation, you’ll surely convert sales complexity into a brutal competitive advantage."
- Tim Sanders
Creativity
"Direct selling offers what people need most: a chance to take control of their lives."
- David Bach
Empowerment
"The beauty of direct selling is that it teaches you to close your own deals."
- Mary Kay Ash
Self-confidence
"Establishing trust is better than any sales technique."
- Mike Puglia
Relationships
"Killer salespeople uncover true problems behind desired solutions."
- Aaron Ross
Insight
"Success in direct selling is simply a matter of working with enough people in the right way."
- Mark Yarnell
Teamwork
"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
"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."
- Tony Robbins
Mindfulness
"Direct selling is not about selling products – it’s about selling possibilities."
- Jordan Adler
Vision
"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
Responsibility
"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
- Michael LeBoeuf
Success
"Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back."
- Jan Carlzon
Relationships
"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
"In sales, a referral is a key to the door of resistance."
- Bo Bennett
Relationships
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them"
- Ann Landers
Hard Work
"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
Happiness
"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
Hard Work
"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results."
- Warren Buffett
Success
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
- Og Mandino
Resilience
"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
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
- George Addair
Facing Fears
"The key is not to call the decision-maker. The key however is to have the decision maker call you."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Influence
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts."
- John Wooden
Courage
"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Achievement
"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
"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
Connection to Earth
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
- Jim Rohn
Self-improvement
"You don’t close a sale; you should rather open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise."
- Patricia Fripp
Relationships
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say."
- Thomas Freese
Awareness
"Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients – those are the ones who stand out."
- Deb Calvert
Empathy
"SELLING is really about having conversations with people while helping them improve their company or their life."
- Lori Richardson
Service
"Selling is essentially a transference of feelings."
- Zig Ziglar
Connection to Earth
"It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching, and closing. But it is about listening, diagnosing and prescribing."
- Mark Roberge
Empathy
"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
"The best way to sell something is to stop selling and start helping."
- Zig Ziglar
Compassion
"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
"What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas."
- Jill Konrath
Creativity
"The key difference between successful individuals and others isn't just strength or knowledge; it's the will to keep going."
- Vince Lombardi
Determination
"You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise."
- Patricia Fripp
Service
"Don’t watch the clock. Rather do what it does. Keep going."
- Sam Levenson
Persistence
"There is no substitute for hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You surely can’t live long enough to make them yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Learning from Mistakes
"Customers don’t care at all whether you close the deal or not. They care about improving their business."
- Aaron Ross
Awareness
"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
Success
"Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line"
- Dan Waldschmidt
Perseverance
"Remember, you are not in charge; you are responsible for those in your charge."
- Simon Sinek
Responsibility
"You are now, and you do become, what you think about."
- Earl Nightingale
Belief in Self
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"The more you learn, the more you earn."
- Warren Buffett
Education
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
- Steve Jobs
Leadership
"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
Adaptation
"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
"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
Leadership
"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle
Personal Growth
"All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust."
- Bob Burg
Relationships
"Direct selling gives you the opportunity to face rejection head-on and turn it into acceptance."
- Dale Carnegie
Resilience
"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."
- Roger Staubach
Perseverance
"Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen."
- Bob Burg
Empathy
"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
Organization
"Numbers alone won’t fix anything. But they will help you identify where the problem is."
- Steli Efti
Insight
"The real problem with closing is not adequately defining or diagnosing the prospect’s problems in the first place."
- Keith Eades
Insight
"There is no magic to closing. There are no magic phrases. But, closing the deal is completely dependent on the situation."
- Alice Heiman
Insight
"Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues."
- Neil Rackham
Learning
"In high-productivity sales organizations, salespeople do not cause customer acquisition growth, rather they fulfill it."
- Aaron Ross
Productivity
"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
Time Management
"Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."
- Thomas Edison
Success
"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
"Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers
Determination
"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
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."
- Henry J. Kaiser
Optimism
"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
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."
- Ann Landers
Hard Work
"Focus on being productive instead of being busy."
- Tim Ferriss
Productivity
"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
"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line."
- Dan Waldschmidt
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
"Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Relationships
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"Be so good, they can’t ignore you."
- Steve Martin
Motivation
"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."
- Vince Lombardi
Ambition
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
- Og Mandino
Hard Work
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney
Motivation
"Become the person who would attract the results you seek."
- Jim Cathcart
Self-improvement
"90 percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion."
- Shiv Khera
Belief
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
Leadership
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain
Motivation
"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
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
- Bobby Unser
Success
"To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship."
- Patricia Fripp
Relationships
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
- Gary Player
Hard Work
"Sales success comes from the right balance of quality human interaction as well as appropriate use of supplemental tools."
- Deb Calvert
Balance
"BUYERS do business with you, not with your company and not with your technology."
- Joanne Black
Relationships
"HUMANIZE the sales process or perish."
- Steli Efti
Empathy
"If you don’t believe in what you’re selling, neither will your prospect."
- Frank Bettger
Belief in Self
"The story is the heart of the sale."
- Matthew Pollard
Creativity
"Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."
- Bill Gates
Persistence
"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
Self-confidence
"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
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Overcoming Obstacles
"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
Self-improvement
"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance."
- Bo Bennett
Success
"A-B-C. Always Be Closing."
- Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross
Drive
"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
"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
"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
"Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."
- Zig Ziglar
Focus
"You don't compete on price. You compete on relationships"
- Patricia Fripp
Relationships
"Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients—those are the ones who stand out."
- Deb Calvert
Empathy
"Honest and transparent content is the best sales tool in the world. Period."
- Marcus Sheridan
Integrity
"To be seen as a credible and trusted advisor, every touch you have with a customer should provide added value."
- Sharon Gillenwater
Relationships
"How you sell is more important than what you sell."
- Andy Paul
Focus
"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
"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
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect."
- William Clement Stone
Empathy
"The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary."
- Sam Walton
Service
"People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic."
- Seth Godin
Relationships
"Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?"
- Joe Namath
Ambition
"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. But it is courage that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-esteem
"Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you."
- Tony Hsieh
Vision
"The first part of success is ‘Get-to-it-iveness’; the second part of success is ‘Stick-to-it-iveness.”"
- Orison Marden
Persistence
"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you will surely get the result."
- Oscar Wilde
Success
"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
"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 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
"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
"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
Leadership
"You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you."
- Jill Konrath
Mindfulness
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
Motivation
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life."
- Jean Luc Picard
Resilience
"The hours ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage."
- Robin Sharma
Time Management
"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
"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
Motivation
"Selling is really about having conversations with people and helping improve their company or their life."
- Lori Richardson
Connection to Earth
"Every email is an opportunity to test a different benefit or angle."
- Heather R Morgan
Learning from Mistakes
"Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers."
- Seth Godin
Adaptation
"You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
Generosity
"Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell Ideas. Not stuff."
- Aaron Ross
Creativity
"Make a customer, not a sale."
- Katherine Barchetti
Service
"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
Empowerment
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
- Muhammad Ali
Overcoming Obstacles
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Everything we want is on the other side of fear."
- George Addair
Facing Fears
"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement."
- Isocrates
Focus
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
- Arnold H. Glasow
Success
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-awareness
"Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."
- John Wooden
Self-improvement
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion."
- Shiv Khera
Belief
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein
Change
"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
"Don’t bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it."
- Peter Dinklage
Taking Risks
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
- Robert Collier
Success
"If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will."
- Bob Hooey
Service
"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
Focus
"Success is not about the destination but the journey."
- Zig Ziglar
Philosophy
"Growth and comfort do not coexist."
- Ginni Rometty
Growth
"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is"
- Vince Lombardi
Motivation
"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
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
- Christopher Morley
Success
"Every great business is built on friendship."
- JC Penney
Relationships
"Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific."
- Seth Godin
Focus
"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 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
"Never ever chase money. You should chase success, because with success money follows."
- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
Ambition
"Before LinkedIn and other social networks in the sales world, ABC stood for Always Be Closing. Now it means "Always Be Connecting.”"
- Jill Rowley
Connection to Earth
"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions."
- Jordan Belfort
Taking Risks
"You earn the right to tell your story, when you start with theirs."
- Matt Heinz
Relationships
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
- Bill Gates
Learning from Mistakes
"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
"Remember, people don’t believe it when WE say it, they believe it when THEY say it."
- Shari Levitin
Influence
"You don’t have to be liked to be trusted."
- Keenan
Relationships
"Always do your best. What you plant now, will harvest later."
- Og Mandino
Hard Work
"I never lose. I either win or learn"
- Nelson Mandela
Learning from Mistakes
"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
"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
"It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching, and closing. It is about listening, diagnosing, and prescribing."
- Mark Roberge
Focus
"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
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is."
- Vince Lombardi
Motivation
"Winning starts with beginning."
- Robert H. Schuller
Motivation
"Don’t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Contribution
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."
- Walter Anderson
Motivation
"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
"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
"Start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you."
- Jill Konrath
Relationships
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain
Integrity
"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
Generosity
"Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot."
- Jim Rohn
Motivation
"The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average."
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"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
"Making the call is making progress."
- Rework
Taking Risks
"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
"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
"The customer’s perception is your reality."
- Kate Zabriskie
Awareness
"Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong."
- Donald Porter
Responsibility
"Face-to-face selling is still the most powerful human communication tool"
- Brian Tracy
Connection to Earth
"Direct selling is better than a graduate degree when it comes to developing skills for success."
- Jim Rohn
Education
"Either run the day or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
Success
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
- Thomas Paine
Courage
"I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen Covey
Responsibility
"Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring"
- Steve Maraboli
Drive
"On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire"
- Larry D. Turner
Ambition
"All great achievements require time"
- Maya Angelou
Perseverance
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Learning from Mistakes
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vidal Sassoon
Hard Work
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
Vision
"All great achievements require time."
- Maya Angelou
Achievement
"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
Hard Work
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
- Jim Ryun
Motivation
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
- Sam Levenson
Motivation
"A successful warrior is an ordinary person with an unwavering focus."
- Bruce Lee
Focus
"I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be done, then I push harder."
- Issa Rae
Determination
"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
Motivation
"The golden rule for every business is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."
- Orison Swett Marden
Empathy
"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers."
- Seth Godin
Empathy
"Sales is not about selling anymore, but about building trust and educating."
- Siva Devaki
Transformation
"Sales are a transfer of enthusiasm from the salesperson to the customer."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Often when you think you are at the end of something, you are at the beginning of something else."
- Fred Rogers
New Beginnings
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
- Jackson Brown Jr.
Success
"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
- David Frost
Belief in Self
"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are."
- Oprah Winfrey
Self-esteem
"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
Contribution
"Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming."
- Richard Branson
Optimism
"Winners Anticipate; Losers React."
- Tony Robbins
Focus
"Precision beats power, and timing beats speed."
- Conor McGregor
Efficiency
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-awareness
"The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse."
- Jason Mason
Failure
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
- Karim Seddiki
Courage
"Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day."
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Vision
"In business as in life, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."
- Dr. Chet Karrass
Leadership
"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."
- Fred Rogers
New Beginnings
"Losers have goals. Winners have systems."
- Scott Adams
Organization
"Today is always the most productive day of your week."
- Mark Hunter
Productivity
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."
- Michael John Bobak
Growth
"Treat objections as requests for further information."
- Brian Tracy
Adaptation
"Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming"
- Richard Branson
Optimism
"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
Teamwork
"Change before you have to."
- Jack Welch
Change
"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
Choice
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Achievement
"You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address."
- Ray Bradbury
Resilience
"You can't turn a no to a yes without a maybe in between."
- Francis Underwood
Persistence
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure."
- Confucius
Success
"The sales compensation plan is Batman, the sales contest is Robin."
- Mark Roberge
Motivation
"To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business."
- Harvey Mackay
Awareness
"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
"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Taking Risks
"The best revenge is massive success."
- Frank Sinatra
Success
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."
- Alexandra K. Trenfor
Leadership
"Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is ..."
- Paul Chek
Knowledge
"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
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"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
"When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you."
- Walter Payton
Well-being
"There are three choices in life: be good, get good, or give up."
- Hugh Laurie (as House)
Choice
"You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something in your life."
- Eminem
Courage
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
- Mae West
Contentment
"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
"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
"Trying is winning at the moment."
- Dan Waldschmidt
Motivation
"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John R. Wooden
Empowerment
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
- John Madden
Adversity
"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
- Shirley Chisholm
Empowerment
"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
"There’s never any guarantee that anyone will like you. So if anyone likes you at all, you’ve already won."
- Chelsea Handler
Self-esteem
"There’s so much creativity in brokeness, brokeness will have you making it work."
- Issa Rae
Creativity
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."
- Chester A. Arthur
Ambition
"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
"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
"Never confuse activity with accomplishment."
- Lori Richardson
Productivity
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare
Self-awareness
"Your past doesn't equal your future."
- Tony Robbins
Personal Growth
"Worry is a misuse of the imagination."
- Dan Zadra
Mindfulness
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-awareness
"You don't even really enjoy rest unless you truly deserve it."
- Joe Rogan
Self-care
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung
Self-awareness
"My sales objective is to get my prospects to look at my products the same way I look at bacon"
- Kurt Mortensen
Motivation
"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway."
- Robert Downey Jr
Boldness
"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
"Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion."
- Tina Fey
Self-confidence
"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."
- Gustav Mahler
Persistence
"I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better."
- Abraham Lincoln
Teamwork
"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
- Andy Warhol
Awareness
"If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be human, you’d be a game show host."
- Gabriel Heather
Joy
"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life."
- Alan Simpson
Balance
"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."
- Paulo Coelho
Awareness
"Done is better than perfect."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Productivity
"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."
Empowerment
"If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you surely don’t know what you’re doing."
Awareness
"The customer doesn’t care about features, rather they care about solving their problems."
Empathy
"For a leader, getting results is more important than getting credit."
Leadership
"You can’t propose a mutually beneficial business relationship until you can’t understand their business."
Connection to Earth
"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."
Awareness
"There is always room at the top."
Success
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because it does."
Contribution
"High expectations are the key to everything."
Ambition
"You need to focus on moving forward rather than endlessly preparing to begin."
Motivation
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
Focus
"Never ever, ever stop following up."
Persistence
"Trust trumps transactions."
Relationships
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
Hard Work
"When you feel like quitting: think about why you started."
Motivation
"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
"Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect."
Motivation
"You can't sell others if you aren't sold yourself first."
Belief in Self
"If you see it inside of your head, eventually you will see it in front of your eyes."
Vision
"Good things come to those who hustle hard."
Drive
"Success is never owned; it is only rented—and the rent is due every day."
Hard Work
"Focus on progress, not perfection."
- Unknown
Motivation
"Don’t wish for things to be easier, wish for you to be better."
Self-improvement
"Your self-worth determines your net worth."
Belief in Self
"Sales enablement can’t be reactive. It has to be a full-blown strategy that’s woven into the fabric of the company."
Leadership
"You need to be willing to lose if you're truly committed to win."
Perseverance
"Ask for the close early, and ask often."
Taking Risks
"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
"People are starving for decisiveness. If you give it to them, you will rule the world."
Leadership
"Success is not about luck; it's about hard work and persistence."
Hard Work
"Today is a blank slate loaded with nothing but potential."
New Beginnings
"Your job in sales is to create moments of truth!"
Relationships
"Nothing happens until a sale is made."
Focus
"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."
- Unknown
Hard Work
"Success is not about being the best; it's about being better than you were yesterday."
Personal Growth
"You can learn more in 5 minutes of self-study than in 5 years of studying the world."
Learning
"Success is not about what you achieve but who you become in the process."
Personal Growth
"Success is not about competing with others; it's about competing with yourself."
Personal Growth
"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
"Coffee is for closers."
Motivation
"Clarity is power."
Focus
"Most salespeople throw darts in the dark, hoping something will hit."
Focus
"The best salespeople are the ones who genuinely care about their customer's needs."
Empathy
"Sales are not about transactions; they are about building long-lasting relationships."
Relationships
"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference."
Contribution
"Sales are not about pushing products; they are about finding solutions."
Compassion
"Never sacrifice who you are, just because someone has a problem with it."
Integrity
"Sales is not about convincing; it's about helping."
Compassion
"Sales are about creating value for your customers."
Contribution
"'I can' is 100 times more important than IQ."
Belief in Self
"The ordinary focus on what they’re getting. The extraordinary think about who they’re becoming."
Personal Growth
"Sales are not about closing deals; they are about opening relationships."
Relationships
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect."
Belief in Self
"Emails that never get sent close no deals."
Motivation
"Chasing perfection is like chasing the wind, it's highly futile."
Self-improvement
"You don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training."
Self-improvement
"The best salespeople are the ones who are genuinely passionate about their products or services."
Motivation
"Past performance is not indicative of future results."
Awareness
"Business is simple; people make it complicated."
Simplicity
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Motivation
"Success is not about the number of deals you close; it’s about the impact you make."
Success
"Hard training, easy fight!"
Hard Work
"The best salespeople are the ones who can turn objections into opportunities."
Motivation