Ultimate Collection of Sales Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Success

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Mark Hunter

"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

"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

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

- Andy Paul

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

- Sharon Gillenwater

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Dan Waldschmidt

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Zig Ziglar

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Thomas Edison

"Establishing trust is better than any sales technique."

- Mike Puglia

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in 2 years by trying to get people interested in you"

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Bob Burg

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Be so good, they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Henry Ford

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- John Wooden

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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 ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"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

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- David Brinkley

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

- John Wooden

"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

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

- Mike Tyson

"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

"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

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

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

- Norman Ralph Augustine

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

- Jean Luc Picard

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Lori Richardson

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Don’t celebrate closing a sale; celebrate opening a relationship"

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Tony Hsieh

"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

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"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

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

- 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

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

- Bill Gates

"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

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

- Patricia Fripp

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

- Marcus Sheridan

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

- William Clement Stone

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

- Henry J. Kaiser

"80% of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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

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

- Ann Landers

"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

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

- Deb Calvert

"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

""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

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

- Dan Waldschmidt

""All great achievements require time""

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Gary Player

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

- Patricia Fripp

"Failure is an event, not a person."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"Quality performance starts with a positive attitude."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Jill Konrath

"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

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

- Roger Staubach

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

- Bob Burg

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

- W. L. Bateman

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

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Peter Dinklage

"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.

"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

"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

"Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

- John Wooden

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

- Mike Bosworth

"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

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

- Laura Stack

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Sam Levenson

"What we dwell on is who we become."

- Oprah Winfrey

"What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas."

- Jill Konrath

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

- Thomas Paine

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

- George S. Patton

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Zig Ziglar

"I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you instead willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?"

- Jill Konrath

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Thomas Edison

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

- Zig Ziglar

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."

- Zig Ziglar

"If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress."

- Barack Obama

"There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits."

- Michael Phelps

"If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost."

- Zig Ziglar

"A small daily progress adds up to large results over time."

- Brian Tracy

"People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Stop selling. Start helping."

- Matt White

"If you work just for money, you’ll never make it. But if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours."

- Ray Kroc

"Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships."

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Winston Churchill

"Quality performance starts with a positive attitude"

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"The best salespeople are the ones who care the most."

- Joe Girard

"Always deliver more than expected"

- Larry Page

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

- Steve Jobs

"The number one reason for failure in sales is an empty pipeline, and the root cause of an empty pipeline is the failure to consistently prospect."

- Jeb Blount

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great at prospecting."

- Zig Ziglar

"This is not hard sell—it’s heart sell. Good questions get to the heart of the problem or the need very quickly, and the buyer doesn’t feel like he or she is being pushed."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

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

- Zig Ziglar

"In every sales conversation, the person who exerts the greatest amount of emotional control has the highest probability of getting the outcome they desire. You must first gain control of your emotions before you can influence the emotions of other people. Getting past no in all its various forms, begins and ends with emotional control."

- Jeb Blount

"Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."

- Zig Ziglar

"Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"

- Maya Angelou

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

- Mike Adenuga

""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

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

- Mark Roberge

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

- Deb Calvert

""A goal is a dream with a deadline.""

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Vince Lombardi

""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

""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

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

- Jordan Belfort

""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 will almost always beat mere talent.""

- Norman Ralph Augustine

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

- Arnold H. Glasow

""The secret of getting ahead is getting started.""

- Mark Twain

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Steve Jobs

""All great achievements require time.""

- Maya Angelou

""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

""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

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Jim Ryun

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Bruce Lee

""There is no substitute for hard work.""

- Thomas Edison

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Siva Devaki

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Deb Calvert

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Jim Rohn

"Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make."

- Bill Bernbach

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

- Shiv Khera

"Remember, you are not in charge; you are responsible for those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Nelson Mandela

""Growth and comfort do not coexist.""

- Ginni Rometty

"Direct selling gives you the opportunity to face rejection head-on and turn it into acceptance."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Steve Maraboli

""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

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

- Larry D. Turner

"A salesperson tells, a good salesperson explains, and a great salesperson demonstrates."

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Jim Cathcart

""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

"Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Matt Heinz

"The beauty of direct selling is that it teaches you to close your own deals."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Ray Bradbury

""I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be done, then I push harder.""

- Issa Rae

"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

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

- Bob Hooey

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

- David Frost

""Trying is winning at the moment.""

- Dan Waldschmidt

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

- Og Mandino

"Make a customer, not a sale."

- Katherine Barchetti

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

- Francis Underwood

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

- Aaron Ross

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Mark Roberge

""We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.""

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Marston

"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

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

- Fred Rogers

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

- Mark Hunter

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

- Dr. Chet Karrass

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

- Shari Levitin

"The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Jill Rowley

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

"Winners Anticipate; Losers React."

- Tony Robbins

"Goals aren’t enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadlines to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous."

- Ben Feldman

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

- John Dryden

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

- John R. Wooden

"Direct selling offers what people need most: a chance to take control of their lives."

- David Bach

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

- Thomas Paine

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The sole reason we are in business is to make life less difficult for our clients."

- Matthew Odgers

"The direct sales model is the great economic equalizer – anyone can succeed through hard work."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong."

- Donald Porter

"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

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

- Jill Rowley

"Direct selling is not about selling products – it’s about selling possibilities."

- Jordan Adler

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

- Isocrates

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

- Rick Pitino

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

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Killer salespeople uncover true problems behind desired solutions."

- Aaron Ross

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

"Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific."

- Seth Godin

"The person who talks to the most people wins in direct sales."

- John Maxwell

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Aristotle

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

- John Mason

"Every great business is built on friendship."

- JC Penney

"Face-to-face selling is still the most powerful human communication tool"

- Brian Tracy

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

- Mark Twain

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

- John Madden

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"'If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.' This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Shirley Chisholm

"The way you ask a question—and how you follow through in the conversation—has an impact on the result you get. It might not change the outcome, but it can take a lot of the sting out of hearing no."

- Jia Jiang

"Finally, I learned rejection is a compass. It teaches you what you don’t want so you can learn what you do."

- Cam Adair

"Rejection is one of life’s most painful experiences, especially if you are used to being successful. It doesn’t have to be debilitating. Underneath rejection’s disappointment, there are lessons and growth awaiting us if we have the courage and humility to uncover them."

- Ron Carucci

"Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."

- Walter Anderson

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

- Bob Hooey

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits them and sells itself."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Albert Einstein

"Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back."

- Jan Carlzon

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

- Harvey Specter

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

- Vincent van Gogh

""All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”"

- Michael John Bobak

""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

"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

"If you wait for certainty, you will spend your whole life standing still. And if you grow discouraged and give up when things get rough, you’ll miss out on your best possible destiny. So the secret is to be excited about what is in your power to control, be accepting of what’s not in your power to control, and then move with certainty into an uncertain future."

- Kevin Hart

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

- Richard Branson

"For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."

- Mary Kay Ash

""Change before you have to.""

- Jack Welch

"The customer’s perception is your reality."

- Kate Zabriskie

"People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic."

- Seth Godin

"Sales is about helping others and making a difference in their lives."

- Mark Hunter

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

- Jim Rohn

"Love of sales + love of life = a happy result."

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Think of your emotions as messages that give you the freedom, rather than the obligation, to respond. Fear protects. Regret teaches. Sadness releases. Joy uplifts. Empathy unites."

- Chip Conley

"The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary."

- Sam Walton

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."

- Steve Jobs

""Success is not about the destination but the journey.""

- Zig Ziglar

"Treat each customer as if they’re the only one in the world."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."

- Michael LeBoeuf

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

- David Brinkley

"Winning starts with beginning."

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."

- Albert Einstein

"Direct selling is better than a graduate degree when it comes to developing skills for success."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Heather R Morgan

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking."

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you."

- Walter Payton

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

- Kurt Mortensen

"There are three choices in life: be good, get good, or give up."

- Hugh Laurie (as House)

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Paul Chek

"The difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is just a little ‘umph.’"

- Marvin Phillips

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"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

"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

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives."

- Daniel Pink

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

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Ann Landers

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Tim Sanders

"Trying is winning in the moment."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"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

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

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

- Issa Rae

"Things never go as planned, so you need to always be ready to think on the fly. Always know that if you have a certain plan, it most likely won’t end up that way."

- Blaise Bevilacqua

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

- Mark Roberge

"I stopped caring so much whether I got a yes or a no. Which meant, I supposed, that I was starting to care a bit less about what other people thought about me. And it felt liberating."

- Jia Jiang

"Escape competition through authenticity."

- Naval Ravikant

"You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away."

- Fredrik Backman

"Sales rarely get better by just waiting around."

- Colleen Francis

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

- Albert Einstein

"Make your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Steve Maraboli

"People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts."

- Robert Keith Leavitt

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Oprah Winfrey

""Whatever you are, be a good one.""

- Abraham Lincoln

"Treat objections as requests for further information."

- Brian Tracy

"Making the call is making progress."

- Rework

"Never confuse activity with accomplishment."

- Lori Richardson

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

- John Kavanagh

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- B.B. King

"The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say."

- Thomas Freese

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

- Fred Rogers

"Always give people more than what they expect to get."

- Nelson Boswell

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Success in direct selling is simply a matter of working with enough people in the right way."

- Mark Yarnell

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

- Chelsea Handler

"Precision beats power, and timing beats speed."

- Conor McGregor

"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

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

- Jason Mason

"Your past doesn't equal your future."

- Tony Robbins

"Worry is a misuse of the imagination."

- Dan Zadra

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

- Mark Roberge

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Kurt Mortensen

"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."

- Andy Warhol

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something in your life."

- Eminem

"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

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

- Robert Downey Jr

"I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- William Shakespeare

"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."

- Gustav Mahler

"If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."

- Chester A. Arthur

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

- Albert Einstein

"There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?"

- Kin Hubbard

"You don't even really enjoy rest unless you truly deserve it."

- Joe Rogan

"If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be human, you’d be a game show host."

- Gabriel Heather

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"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

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

- Carl Jung

"Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins."

- Edith Wharton

"I design, manufacture, distribute, and sell elevator buttons. I specialize in the fourth floor. And I don’t mean to brag, but I’m such a good salesman that I could sell one of my fourth-floor elevator buttons to the owner of a three-story building. … My motto in life: You can’t push my buttons if you don’t buy them."

- Jarod Kintz

"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

- Paulo Coelho

"Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life."

- Alan Simpson

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

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

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

"Never ever, ever stop following up."

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

"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."

"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."

"Trust trumps transactions."

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

"Good things come to those who hustle hard."

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

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

"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."

"Nothing happens until a sale is made."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

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

"There is always room at the top."

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

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

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

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

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

"Focus on progress, not perfection."

- Unknown

"Your self-worth determines your net worth."

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

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

"You can learn more in 5 minutes of self-study than in 5 years of studying the world."

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

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

"Clarity is power."

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

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

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

"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."

"Coffee is for closers."

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

""Sales are about creating value for your customers.""

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

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

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

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

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

""Sales are not about closing deals; they are about opening relationships.""

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

"Business is simple; people make it complicated."

"Emails that never get sent close no deals."

"Hard training, easy fight!"