100 Inspirational Sales Quotes to Motivate and Empower Your Selling Journey

### Unlock Your Sales Potential with Timeless Wisdom Sales is more than just transactions; it's about building relationships, understanding customer needs, and persevering through challenges. This curated collection of 100 inspirational sales quotes from legendary leaders, entrepreneurs, and sales experts offers invaluable insights to fuel your motivation and sharpen your skills. ### Why These Quotes Matter Whether you're a seasoned sales professional or just starting out, these quotes remind us that success in sales hinges on attitude, persistence, and genuine connection. From Zig Ziglar's emphasis on daily motivation to Steve Jobs' call to love what you do, each quote provides a unique perspective to inspire action and growth. ### How to Use This Collection Reflect on these quotes regularly to cultivate a winning mindset. Share them with your team to foster a culture of excellence. Let these words guide your approach to selling, helping you to not only close deals but also open lasting relationships. Dive into this treasure trove of sales wisdom and transform your sales journey today!

Wisdom from the Masters

"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

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"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