Ultimate Collection of Sales Inspiration Quotes to Ignite Your Drive

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Bob Burg

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"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

"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

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Jim Ryun

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Winston S. Churchill

"Quality performance starts with a positive attitude."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Arnold H. Glasow

"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

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

- 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

"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

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Shirley Chisholm

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Jill Konrath

"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

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Peter Dinklage

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

- John Wooden

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

- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

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

- Jill Rowley

"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

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

- Roger Staubach

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

- Bob Burg

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

- Siva Devaki

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

- Jim Rohn

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there"

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Harvey Specter

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

- Deb Calvert

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- W. L. Bateman

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

- Dan Waldschmidt

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

- Larry D. Turner

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

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"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

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Jill Rowley

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Jim Rohn

"Killer salespeople uncover true problems behind desired solutions."

- Aaron Ross

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Isocrates

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

- Deb Calvert

"Trying is winning in the moment."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"Establishing trust is better than any sales technique."

- Mike Puglia

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

- Norman Ralph Augustine

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Aristotle

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- William Clement Stone

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

- Lori Richardson

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

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

- David Frost

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Steve Jobs

"I never lose. I either win or learn"

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Ray Bradbury

"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

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

- Deb Calvert

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

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

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Aaron Ross

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

- Gary Player

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never confuse activity with accomplishment."

- Lori Richardson

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

- Mark Roberge

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"Losers have goals. Winners have systems."

- Scott Adams

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

- Sharon Gillenwater

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Andy Paul

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

- Bill Gates

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Zig Ziglar

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Thomas Paine

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Bob Hooey

"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

"Precision beats power, and timing beats speed."

- Conor McGregor

"Making the call is making progress."

- Rework

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Keenan

"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

"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

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"All great achievements require time"

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Tim Sanders

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Richard Branson

"Be so good, they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Shari Levitin

"Make a customer, not a sale."

- Katherine Barchetti

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

- John Wooden

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Robert Kennedy

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Nick Gleason

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

- Richard Branson

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

- David Brinkley

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"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

"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.

"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

"Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Mike Tyson

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Paul Chek

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

- Marcus Sheridan

"Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific."

- Seth Godin

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

- Matt Heinz

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Francis Underwood

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

- Dr. Chet Karrass

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

- John Kavanagh

"Treat objections as requests for further information."

- Brian Tracy

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running."

- Christopher McDougall

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

- Will Rogers

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Tony Hsieh

"80% of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Ann Landers

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

- Shiv Khera

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

- Jill Konrath

"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

- Bo Bennett

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Issa Rae

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Dan Waldschmidt

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

- Chelsea Handler

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Aaron Ross

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross

"You’re only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and just hope that from that you can get your next job."

- Josh Peck

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

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Thomas Edison

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

- Henry J. Kaiser

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Focus on being productive instead of being busy."

- Tim Ferriss

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

- Conor McGregor

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Warren Buffett

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Jim Cathcart

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Mark Hunter

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

- Laura Stack

"The story is the heart of the sale."

- Matthew Pollard

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

- Jean Luc Picard

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Heather R Morgan

"Failure is an event, not a person."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- George Addair

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Winning starts with beginning."

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Rick Pitino

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- John Dryden

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

- Mark Twain

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Mike Bosworth

"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

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Jason Mason

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

- Kurt Mortensen

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

"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

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"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

"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

"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

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

- Robert Downey Jr

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

- Albert Einstein

"Your past doesn't equal your future."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Fred Rogers

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."

- Walter Anderson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- B.B. King

"Winners Anticipate; Losers React."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

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

- Mark Roberge

"Worry is a misuse of the imagination."

- Dan Zadra

"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

- Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

"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."

"Trust trumps transactions."

"Never ever, ever stop following up."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Nothing happens until a sale is made."

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

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

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

"Yes and No are equally good answers. It’s the Maybe that crushes startups."

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

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

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"Repetition is the key to mastery."

"Emails that never get sent close no deals."

"Clarity is power."

"Coffee is for closers."

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

"Good things come to those who hustle hard."

"Fear is your road sign to growth and success."

"Success happens at the exact moment you don't feel like it."

"Look for what connects you with other human beings rather than for what separates you from them."

"Business is simple; people make it complicated."

"Don't sell the stage, sell the act!"

"It's harder to be kind than clever."

"Appreciation is the currency you pay the universe with."

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

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

"The most important promises you make are the promises you make to yourself."

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

"Choose your hard."

"The difference between fear and excitement is the way you THINK about it."

"Kill your goals. Create habits instead."

"Success breeds success!"

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

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

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

"We're not just human doings, we're human beings."

"The most valuable lessons in your life will most likely come from the most obvious places (in hindsight)."

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

"Ask yourself—what gives me energy?"

"I'm gonna turn my mentors into my peers."

"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?"

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

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

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

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

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

- Unknown

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

"Hard training, easy fight!"

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

"If the product was perfect, we wouldn't need salespeople."

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

"Sales are about creating value for your customers."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Your self-worth determines your net worth."