50+ Inspirational and Funny Sales Quotes to Boost Your Motivation

"People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Gary Player

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order."

- Michael Scott

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

- Jordan Belfort

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

- Jordan Belfort

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Vince Lombardi

"To be successful in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here’s what’s exciting — there are lots of people!"

- Jim Rohn

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

- Siva Devaki

"Make a customer, not a sale."

- Katherine Barchetti

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

- Jordan Belfort

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

- Harvey Mackay

"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

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

- Bob Hooey

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Henry Ford

"The elevator to health, happiness, and Success [for a salesman] is “out of order.” You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- William Clement Stone

"Remember, it’s not just about being better at selling, it’s about being so good, they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

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

- Seth Godin

"If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes."

- John Wooden

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

- Deb Calvert

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

- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!"

- Marvin Phillips

"Opportunity doesn’t make appointments; you have to be ready when it arrives."

- Tim Fargo

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

- Bo Bennett

"The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them."

- Jill Konrath

"Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do."

- Ben Feldman

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

- Jason Mason

"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

"Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn’t hungry."

- George Lorimer

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

- Mark Roberge

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

- Jill Rowley

"A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing."

- Alec Baldwin (humorous twist)

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Jim Rohn

"Everyone lives by selling something."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"You can take and nail two sticks together like they’ve never been nailed together before, and some fool will buy it."

- George Carlin

"You can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one."

- Jayce O’Neal

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

- Tina Fey

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

- John Madden

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

- Chelsea Handler

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

- Issa Rae

"Only fools and dead men don’t change their minds. Fools won’t, and dead men can’t."

- John Henry. Patterson

"Nothing is impossible; some things are just less likely than others."

- Jonathan Winters

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

- Kurt Mortensen

"The elevator to health, happiness, and success [for a salesman] is ‘out of order.’ You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"Why miss a SALE at twenty dollars, when people will buy at $19.95? I’ve found that the opportunity to save that nickel really makes people say YES to buying a NEW duck."

- Jarod Kintz

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."

- Will Rogers

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are vegetarian."

- Dennis Wholey

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

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

"I could sell ice to an Eskimo, but he’d probably just let it melt and drink it."

"A good salesperson knows how to talk; a great salesperson knows how to listen."

"Selling is a lot like tennis; if you don’t serve well, you lose immediately."

"I design, manufacture, distribute, and sell elevator buttons. I also install and repair them. I thought it was a good idea at first, but now I’m starting to come down."

"You know you’re a salesperson when your lie detector test is inconclusive on every question except your name."

"The best time to call me is email."

"Why is it a ‘close’ if it’s supposed to be the start of a customer relationship?"