"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
"Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Relationships
"I never lose. I either win or learn."
- Nelson Mandela
Persistence
"It doesn't matter where you start. Only that you begin."
- Robin Sharma
New Beginnings
"All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust."
- Bob Burg
Relationships
"The more you learn, the more you earn."
- Warren Buffett
Education
"The golden rule for every business is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."
- Orison Swett Marden
Empathy
"The key difference between successful individuals and others isn't just strength or knowledge; it's the will to keep going."
- Vince Lombardi
Determination
"The best way to sell something is to stop selling and start helping."
- Zig Ziglar
Compassion
"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
"You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
Contribution
"Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers."
- Seth Godin
Empathy
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
Service
"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
"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
"Sales is not about selling anymore, but about building trust and educating."
- Siva Devaki
Transformation
"Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients – those are the ones who stand out."
- Deb Calvert
Empathy
"Quality performance starts with a positive attitude."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Motivation
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
- Jim Rohn
Self-improvement
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
- Steve Jobs
Ambition
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"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
"You are now, and you do become, what you think about."
- Earl Nightingale
Belief in Self
"Start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you."
- Jill Konrath
Relationships
"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
"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
"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."
- Jim Rohn
Change
"I don't have dreams, I have goals."
- Harvey Specter
Goals
"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Awareness
"If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got."
- W. L. Bateman
Change
"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement."
- Isocrates
Focus
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
- Elbert Hubbard
Taking Risks
"Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches."
- Harvey Mackay
Learning from Mistakes
"Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."
- Bill Gates
Persistence
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Overcoming Obstacles
"True nobility is being superior to your former self."
- Ernest Hemingway
Personal Growth
"Don’t bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it."
- Peter Dinklage
Taking Risks
"Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."
- Zig Ziglar
Focus
"Establishing trust is better than any sales technique."
- Mike Puglia
Relationships
"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 key is not to call the decision-maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Influence
"Killer salespeople uncover true problems behind desired solutions."
- Aaron Ross
Insight
"Trying is winning in the moment."
- Dan Waldschmidt
Motivation
"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle
Personal Growth
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time."
- Thomas Edison
Perseverance
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."
- Michael John Bobak
Growth
"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 never lose. I either win or learn"
- Nelson Mandela
Learning from Mistakes
"Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring"
- Steve Maraboli
Drive
"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
"On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire"
- Larry D. Turner
Ambition
"Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line"
- Dan Waldschmidt
Perseverance
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Learning from Mistakes
"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
- Gary Player
Hard Work
"Growth and comfort do not coexist."
- Ginni Rometty
Growth
"Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients—those are the ones who stand out."
- Deb Calvert
Empathy
"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
"Never ever chase money. You should chase success, because with success money follows."
- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
Ambition
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
- Christopher Morley
Success
"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
- Shirley Chisholm
Empowerment
"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is"
- Vince Lombardi
Motivation
"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
"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
"Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions."
- Jordan Belfort
Taking Risks
"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
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
- Arnold H. Glasow
Success
"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
"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
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
- Robert Collier
Success
"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
"There is no substitute for hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
- Thomas Paine
Courage
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen Covey
Responsibility
"Sales are a transfer of enthusiasm from the salesperson to the customer."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address."
- Ray Bradbury
Resilience
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"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
"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
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"If you’re going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
- Bill Gates
Learning from Mistakes
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"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
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill
Success
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
- Japanese Proverb
Resilience
"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi
Determination
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston S. Churchill
Positivity
"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts."
- John Wooden
Courage
"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
"Selling is really about having conversations with people and helping improve their company or their life."
- Lori Richardson
Connection to Earth
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
- Og Mandino
Resilience
"It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching, and closing. It is about listening, diagnosing, and prescribing."
- Mark Roberge
Focus
"You don’t compete on price. You compete on relationships."
- Patricia Fripp
Relationships
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
- Zig Ziglar
Belief in Self
"Never confuse activity with accomplishment."
- Lori Richardson
Productivity
"Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service."
- Brian Tracy
Service
"Customers don’t care at all whether you close the deal or not. They care about improving their business."
- Aaron Ross
Awareness
"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
"Dream big! There are no limitations to how good you can become or how high you can rise except the limits you put on yourself."
- Brian Tracy
Ambition
"You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise."
- Patricia Fripp
Service
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
Motivation
"To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship."
- Patricia Fripp
Relationships
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson
Motivation
"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."
- Michael Jordan
Belief in Self
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Either run the day or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
Success
"You don't compete on price. You compete on relationships."
- Patricia Fripp
Relationships
"You either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret."
- Jim Rohn
Self-improvement
"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."
- Tony Robbins
Mindfulness
"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
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect."
- William Clement Stone
Empathy
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."
- Jim Rohn
Success
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will."
- Bob Hooey
Service
"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
"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."
- Vince Lombardi
Ambition
"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
"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
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney
Motivation
"You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
Generosity
"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."
- Henry Ford
Belief
"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
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain
Motivation
"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
- Napoleon Hill
Aspirations
"Losers have goals. Winners have systems."
- Scott Adams
Organization
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor."
- Brian Tracy
Goals
"Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you."
- Tony Hsieh
Vision
"90 percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion."
- Shiv Khera
Belief
"You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you."
- Jill Konrath
Mindfulness
"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
- Bo Bennett
Integrity
"Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers."
- Seth Godin
Adaptation
"Make a customer, not a sale."
- Katherine Barchetti
Service
"Honest and transparent content is the best sales tool in the world. Period."
- Marcus Sheridan
Integrity
"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
Time Management
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running."
- Christopher McDougall
Perseverance
"Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers
Determination
"80% of success is showing up."
- Woody Allen
Success
"Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better."
- Jim Rohn
Self-improvement
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."
- Ann Landers
Hard Work
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln
Personal Growth
"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line."
- Dan Waldschmidt
Motivation
"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
- Sam Levenson
Time Management
"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."
- Biz Stone
Success
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
Change
"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Taking Risks
"Be so good, they can’t ignore you."
- Steve Martin
Motivation
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-awareness
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
- Og Mandino
Hard Work
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
Leadership
"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
"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
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
Teamwork
"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."
- Bo Jackson
Goals
"The major difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them."
- Grant Cardone
Responsibility
"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
"Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort. It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert."
- Angela Duckworth
Determination
"Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune."
- Jim Rohn
Hard Work
"Confidence applied properly surpasses genius. There's nothing like confidence."
- Mike Tyson
Self-confidence
"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are."
- Oprah Winfrey
Self-esteem
"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
"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Achievement
"The hours ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage."
- Robin Sharma
Time Management
"Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is ..."
- Paul Chek
Knowledge
"Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific."
- Seth Godin
Focus
"You earn the right to tell your story, when you start with theirs."
- Matt Heinz
Relationships
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge
"You can't turn a no to a yes without a maybe in between."
- Francis Underwood
Persistence
"In business as in life, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."
- Dr. Chet Karrass
Leadership
"I found that if I just do the best that I can, in every moment I have, the future looks after itself."
- John Kavanagh
Self-improvement
"Remember, people don’t believe it when WE say it, they believe it when THEY say it."
- Shari Levitin
Influence
"Precision beats power, and timing beats speed."
- Conor McGregor
Efficiency
"All great achievements require time"
- Maya Angelou
Perseverance
"Making the call is making progress."
- Rework
Taking Risks
"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
"Great sellers go into a meeting with multiple next-steps; this allows them to proactively respond if a plan does not unfold as planned."
- Tibor Shanto
Organization
"The 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
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."
- Ralph Marston
Motivation
"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
- Oscar Wilde
Success
"There’s so much creativity in brokeness, brokeness will have you making it work."
- Issa Rae
Creativity
"You don’t have to be liked to be trusted."
- Keenan
Relationships
"If you harness the power of innovation, you’ll surely convert sales complexity into a brutal competitive advantage."
- Tim Sanders
Creativity
"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John R. Wooden
Empowerment
"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
"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
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
Success
"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
"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
"Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming"
- Richard Branson
Optimism
"Treat objections as requests for further information."
- Brian Tracy
Adaptation
"Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day."
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Vision
"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."
- Seth Godin
Taking Risks
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
- Wayne Dyer
Motivation
"The best salespeople know that their expertise can become their enemy in selling."
- Mike Bosworth
Self-awareness
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare
Self-awareness
"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
- John Dryden
Personal Growth
"My sales objective is to get my prospects to look at my products the same way I look at bacon"
- Kurt Mortensen
Motivation
"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
"Don’t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Contribution
"The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse."
- Jason Mason
Failure
"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
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Achievement
"I'm not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen Covey
Responsibility
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain
Integrity
"A-B-C. Always Be Closing."
- Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross
Drive
"Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre."
- Warren Buffett
Time Management
"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance."
- Bo Bennett
Success
"The best revenge is massive success."
- Frank Sinatra
Success
"The story is the heart of the sale."
- Matthew Pollard
Creativity
"Always do your best. What you plant now, will harvest later."
- Og Mandino
Hard Work
"True productivity comes from allowing yourself to make mistakes. Do so, and you’ll succeed more often than any ten perfectionists."
- Laura Stack
Productivity
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
- Robert Frost
Well-being
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life."
- Jean Luc Picard
Resilience
"Every email is an opportunity to test a different benefit or angle."
- Heather R Morgan
Learning from Mistakes
"Become the person who would attract the results you seek."
- Jim Cathcart
Self-improvement
"We’re not here to take part, we’re here to take over."
- Conor McGregor
Ambition
"Focus on being productive instead of being busy."
- Tim Ferriss
Productivity
"Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell Ideas. Not stuff."
- Aaron Ross
Creativity
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."
- Anaïs Nin
Courage
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."
- Henry J. Kaiser
Optimism
"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
"Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is."
- Vince Lombardi
Motivation
"Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."
- Thomas Edison
Success
"To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business."
- Harvey Mackay
Awareness
"Winning starts with beginning."
- Robert H. Schuller
Motivation
"Today is always the most productive day of your week."
- Mark Hunter
Productivity
"Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Failure is an event, not a person."
- Zig Ziglar
Failure
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"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
"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
"Your past doesn't equal your future."
- Tony Robbins
Personal Growth
"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
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
- Albert Einstein
Self-awareness
"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."
- Fred Rogers
New Beginnings
"Done is better than perfect."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Productivity
"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."
- Walter Anderson
Motivation
"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway."
- Robert Downey Jr
Boldness
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
"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
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
- Karim Seddiki
Courage
"The sales compensation plan is Batman, the sales contest is Robin."
- Mark Roberge
Motivation
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-awareness
"Winners Anticipate; Losers React."
- Tony Robbins
Focus
"When people give me all these great compliments, I thank them, but still go back to my room and practice."
- B.B. King
Hard Work
"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."
- Alexandra K. Trenfor
Leadership
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
- Muhammad Ali
Overcoming Obstacles
"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."
- Paulo Coelho
Awareness
"Worry is a misuse of the imagination."
- Dan Zadra
Mindfulness
"When you feel like quitting: think about why you started."
Motivation
"If you don't take care of your customers, your competitors will!"
Responsibility
"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
"Never ever, ever stop following up."
Persistence
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
Hard Work
"Trust trumps transactions."
Relationships
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
Focus
"You don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training."
Self-improvement
"Your job in sales is to create moments of truth!"
Relationships
"You need to be willing to lose if you're truly committed to win."
Perseverance
"You can't sell others if you aren't sold yourself first."
Belief in Self
"Nothing happens until a sale is made."
Focus
"People are starving for decisiveness. If you give it to them, you will rule the world."
Leadership
"Expect the yes. Embrace the no. That's how you master the close!"
Persistence
"Do what others don't and you'll get what others won't."
Taking Risks
"Don't just work IN your business, work ON your business."
Personal Growth
"Yes and No are equally good answers. It’s the Maybe that crushes startups."
Choice
"You need to focus on moving forward rather than endlessly preparing to begin."
Motivation
"Sales enablement can’t be reactive. It has to be a full-blown strategy that’s woven into the fabric of the company."
Leadership
"Success happens at the exact moment you don't feel like it."
Motivation
"Look for what connects you with other human beings rather than for what separates you from them."
Connection to Earth
"Repetition is the key to mastery."
Persistence
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Motivation
"Success is never owned; it is only rented—and the rent is due every day."
Hard Work
"Good things come to those who hustle hard."
Drive
"Coffee is for closers."
Motivation
"For a leader, getting results is more important than getting credit."
Leadership
"Emails that never get sent close no deals."
Motivation
"Clarity is power."
Focus
"Fear is your road sign to growth and success."
Facing Fears
"Don't sell the stage, sell the act!"
Creativity
"It's harder to be kind than clever."
Compassion
"Business is simple; people make it complicated."
Simplicity
"Today is a blank slate loaded with nothing but potential."
New Beginnings
"If you see it inside of your head, eventually you will see it in front of your eyes."
Vision
"Appreciation is the currency you pay the universe with."
Gratitude
"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference."
Contribution
"The most important promises you make are the promises you make to yourself."
Self-improvement
"Success breeds success!"
Success
"Kill your goals. Create habits instead."
Personal Growth
"Most salespeople throw darts in the dark, hoping something will hit."
Focus
"The difference between fear and excitement is the way you THINK about it."
Mindfulness
"Choose your hard."
Choice
"Don’t wish for things to be easier, wish for you to be better."
Self-improvement
"Chasing perfection is like chasing the wind, it's highly futile."
Self-improvement
"We're not just human doings, we're human beings."
Self-awareness
"I'm gonna turn my mentors into my peers."
Ambition
"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself."
Self-awareness
"The most valuable lessons in your life will most likely come from the most obvious places (in hindsight)."
Learning
"Ask yourself—what gives me energy?"
Self-awareness
"There is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close?"
Persistence
"The ordinary focus on what they’re getting. The extraordinary think about who they’re becoming."
Personal Growth
"Never sacrifice who you are, just because someone has a problem with it."
Integrity
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take!"
Motivation
"'I can' is 100 times more important than IQ."
Belief in Self
"Success is not about being the best; it's about being better than you were yesterday."
Personal Growth
"Your self-worth determines your net worth."
Belief in Self
"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 best salespeople are the ones who are genuinely passionate about their products or services."
Motivation
"Sales are about creating value for your customers."
Contribution
"Success is not about luck; it's about hard work and persistence."
Hard Work
"The best salespeople are the ones who can turn objections into opportunities."
Motivation
"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."
- Unknown
Hard Work
"The best salespeople are the ones who genuinely care about their customer's needs."
Empathy
"Sales is not about convincing; it's about helping."
Compassion
"Sales are not about pushing products; they are about finding solutions."
Compassion
"Sales are not about transactions; they are about building long-lasting relationships."
Relationships
"If the product was perfect, we wouldn't need salespeople."
Awareness
"Ask for the close early, and ask often."
Taking Risks
"Never take a bet if you don't know how to win it."
Wisdom
"Hard training, easy fight!"
Hard Work