Jonno White
Apr 27, 202350 min
1. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” -Henry Ford
2. “Sales success comes from the right balance of quality human interaction as well as appropriate use of supplemental tools.”– Deb Calvert
3. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” – Madam C.J. Walker
4. “The first part of success is ‘Get-to-it-iveness’; the second part of success is ‘Stick-to-it-iveness.” – Orison Marden
5. “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
6. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
7. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
8. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
9. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them yourself. -Eleanor Roosevelt
10. Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. -Michelle Obama
11. Courage is not defined by having the strength to go on. It is, in fact, going on even when you do not have any left. - Teddy Roosevelt
12. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
13. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” Benjamin Franklin
14. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. ” – Biz Stone
15. “On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire.” – Larry D. Turner
16. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” — Dr. Henry Link.
17. “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s rather about handling the opportunities right.”- Mark Hunter
18. “Never wish that life were easier, wish that you were better” – Jim Rohn
19. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
20. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
21. “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust.”– Bob Burg
22. Emails that do not get sent do not close deals.
23. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath
24. “The story is the heart of the sale.”- Matthew Pollard
25. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” — Albert Einstein
26. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them” – Ann Landers
27. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
28. You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. -Diana Ross
29. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” Ken Blanchard
30. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain
31. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
32. “It´s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.” Zig Ziglar
33. “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust.” – Bob Burg
34. “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”- John D Rockefeller
35. “The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” – Tony Robbins
36. “The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say.”– Thomas Freese
37. “Value the relationship more than your quota.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
38. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” — George S. Patton.
39. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
40. “High expectations are the key to everything.” — Sam Walton.
41. Whenever you feel like you have failed, remember that even Coca Cola only sold 25 bottles their first year. Success takes time.
42. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”- Wayne Gretzky
43. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
44. “If you harness the power of innovation, you’ll surely convert sales complexity into a brutal competitive advantage.”– Tim Sanders
45. “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.” – Zig Ziglar
46. “Past limits” is, by definition, an impossibility, but you get it.
47. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. -Vince Lombardi
48. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair.
49. “Hard work may not always result in success but it will never result in regret.” – Michael Lewis, Moneyball.
50. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
51. “Act as if. You understand what that means? Act as if you are the president of this firm. Act as if.”
52. High expectations are the key to everything.”- Sam Walton
53. “How you sell is more important than what you sell.” — Andy Paul.
54. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
55. “It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching, and closing. It’s about listening, diagnosing, and prescribing.” – Mark Roberge
56. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. -Alice Walker
57. Leadership belongs to those who take it. -Sheryl Sandberg
58. “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust.”
59. “All business is personal… Make your friends before you need them.” -Robert L. Johnson
60. “When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.” – Walter Payton
61. “‘I can’ is 100 times more important than IQ.” – Unknown
62. “Selling is essentially a transference of feelings.” – Zig Ziglar
63. “You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.” – Andy Warhol
64. “In the world of Internet Customer Service, it’s important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.” – Doug Warner
65. “You can’t give up! If you give up, you’re like everybody else.” -Chris Evert
66. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” — Vince Lombardi.
67. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. -Zig Ziglar
68. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” — Brian Tracy.
69. “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.
70. “Integrity is what we do, what we say and what we say we do. “ Don Galer
71. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” -Lucille Ball
72. “Procrastination is a conversion killer and business destroyer.” Rich Scheffren
73. Knowing what must be done does away with fear. -Rosa Parks
74. “To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.” Friedrich Nietzsche
75. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John R. Wooden
76. Do not just work IN your business; work ON it. That is how it should always be.
77. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.” — W. Clement Stone.
78. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” -Zig Ziglar
79. “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.
80. “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
81. “Every sale has five obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar
82. “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” — John Madden.
83. “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis Stevenson
84. “High expectations are the key to everything.” -Sam Walton
85. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” —Norman Ralph Augustine.
86. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”- Napolean Hill
87. “Make a customer, not a sale”- Katherine Barchetti
88. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them” — Ann Landers.
89. “Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
90. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightengale.
91. “We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” George S. Patton
92. “What you focus on is what you get.” – Bob Burg
93. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -Thomas Edison
94. “True productivity comes from allowing yourself to make mistakes. Do so, and you’ll succeed more often than any ten perfectionists.” — Laura Stack.
95. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky.
96. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll soon start having positive results.”
97. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”- Sheryl Sandberg
98. “If you're going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
99. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
100. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
101. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John R. Wooden.
102. “You need to be able to paint a picture in a conversation. The lost part of sales is the storytelling side.” – Richard Harris
103. 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
104. Solve your customer’s pain-points, and they will be loyal to you forever!
105. “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
106. “The story is the heart of the sale.” – Matthew Pollard
107. “The sales compensation plan is Batman, while the sales contest is Robin.”– Mark Roberge
108. “The key is not to call the decision-maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.” — Jeffrey Gitomer.
109. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”- John D. Rockefeller
110. I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance? -Jill Konrath
111. “I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.”
112. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins.
113. Either run the day or the day runs you. -Jim Rohn
114. “People who can close deals love life.” – Grant Cardone
115. “Start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.” — Jill Konrath.
116. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” — Og Mandino.
117. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
118. “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” – Mark Hunter
119. “The same wind blows on us all. What matters is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.” – Jim Rohn
120. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” -Napolean Hill
121. “You’ve got enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something in your life.” – Eminem
122. “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
123. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
124. “Establishing trust is better than any sales technique.” – Mike Puglia
125. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt DisneyThe way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing Walt Disney
126. It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right. -Mark Hunter
127. “Most time gets lost by not thinking things through.” Alfred Herrhausen
128. “Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues.”– Neil Rackham
129. “An effective process has the reps thinking in terms of ‘them’ as opposed to ‘us.’“ – Trish Bertuzzi
130. There’s so much creativity in brokeness. Brokeness will have you making it work. -Issa Rae
131. “Change is the only constant in business. Those who are able to adapt will win.” Alfred Herrhausen
132. “Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin.
133. “Selling is really about having conversations with people and helping improve their company or their life.” – Lori Richardson
134. “If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be human, you'd be a game show host.” – Gabriel Heather
135. “Start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.” – Jill Konrath
136. “Success is the sum of small efforts — repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
137. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
138. “When reps take the role of a curious student rather than an informed expert, buyers are much more inclined to engage.” — Jeff Hoffman.
139. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
140. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.’’ -Mike Adenuga
141. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, no the attitude of the prospect.” – William Clement Stone
142. “Take a risk. If you win, you'll be happy; if you lose, you'll be wise.” Anonymous
143. “What you focus on is what you get.” — Bob Burg.
144. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford.
145. “Make a customer, not a sale.”- Katherine Barchetti
146. “Prospecting – find the man with the problem.” – Ben Friedman
147. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is the courage that counts.” Winston Churchill
148. “What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.” — Jill Konrath.
149. “If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
150. “You are what you repeatedly do. Make excellence a habit, not an act that you do once a while." - Aristotle
151. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Sometimes, all it takes is the first step to start Rest, follows. - Wayne Gretzky
152. “Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.” — Ralph Marston.
153. “Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word ‘sorry.'” — Trish Bertuzzi.
154. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis.
155. “There are three choices in life: be good, get good, or give up.” – Hugh Laurie (as House)
156. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
157. “I never lose. I either win or learn.” Nelson Mandela.
158. “There are three choices in life: be good, get good, or give up.” – Hugh Laurie
159. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” David Brinkley
160. “Every choice you make has an end result.”
161. “Fall down seven times and stand up eight.” — Unknown/proverb.
162. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” Bob Hooey
163. “There’s so much creativity in brokeness. Brokeness will have you making it work.”
164. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.” – William Clement Stone
165. “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” -Mark Hunter
166. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” – Brian Tracy
167. “If you’re not taking care of your customers, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey
168. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
169. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”- Robert Collier
170. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. -Og Mandino
171. “Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life.” – Alan Simpson
172. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
173. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” — Jim Cathcart.
174. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.” Zig Ziglar.
175. “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” John Madden
176. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” — Pablo Picasso.
177. “Great things are done by a series of small things done together.” — Vincent van Gogh.
178. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” – David Brinkley
179. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”- Vince Lombardi
180. “Killer Salespeople Uncover True Problems Behind Desired Solutions.”– Aaron Ross
181. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in, and day-out.” – Robert Collier
182. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”- Henry Ford
183. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
184. “I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.” – Tom Hopkins
185. 97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% that never gave up! Do not give up, ever.
186. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
187. “What we dwell on is who we become.” — Oprah Winfrey.
188. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
189. “Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients – those are the ones who stand out.” – Deb Calvert
190. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” -Sam Levenson
191. “Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee
192. “Remember, people don’t believe it when WE say it, they believe it when THEY say it,” – Shari Levitin
193. “In high-productivity sales organizations, salespeople do not cause customer acquisition growth, they fulfill it.” – Aaron Ross
194. Your self-worth will determine your net worth.
195. “What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.” -Jill Konrath
196. “Ninety percent of selling is convincing and 10 percent is persuasion.” – Shiv Khera
197. “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
198. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. -Lucille Ball
199. “Fall down seven times and stand up eight.” – Proverb
200. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”- Albert Einstein
201. “Either run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
202. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
203. “Good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get things done.” – Jocko Willink (more Jocko Willink quotes here.)
204. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” -Vince Lombardi
205. “Every mail is an opportunity to test a different benefit or angle.” – Heather R. Morgan
206. “Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” – Biz Stone
207. “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
208. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.”- Zig Ziglar
209. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You surely can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
210. “Never sacrifice who you are, just because someone has a problem with it.” – Unknown
211. When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. -Oprah Winfrey
212. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”
213. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” – Jim Cathcart
214. The difference between fear and excitement lies in how you THINK about it.
215. “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” — Christopher Morley.
216. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. -Tony Robbins
217. “Everyone says it's impossible.”
218. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker
219. “We're not here to take part, we're here to take over.” – Conor McGregor
220. If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong
221. All great achievements require time. -Maya Angelou
222. “I thrive on obstacles. If I’m told that it can’t be done, then I push harder.” -Issa Rae
223. “Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.” – Ralph Marston
224. “Good customer service is the key to success in our modern business landscape.” – GetVOIP
225. “A customers buy from A people. B and C customers buy from B people.” Anonymous
226. “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
227. “If you don’t believe in what you’re selling, neither will your prospect.” – Frank Bettger
228. “There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions — in a way that serves the world and you.” — Richard Branson.
229. “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey.
230. “Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.” - Thomas Edison
231. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
232. “Sales enablement can’t be reactive. It has to be a full-blown strategy that’s woven into the fabric of the company.” — Roderick Jefferson.
233. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”- Abraham Lincoln
234. If you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. –Russell Simmons
235. “All things being equal – people will do business with and refer business to those people they know, like, and trust.” – Bo Burg, The Go-Giver
236. “If you do not have a defined process that moves your people forward so they can achieve greater results, then what is it you are managing?” – Keith Rosen
237. “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” -Estée Lauder
238. “For a leader, getting results is more important than getting credit.” – Bob Burg
239. “Accountability breeds responsibility.” – Stephen Covey
240. “Selling is really about having conversations with people and helping improve their company or their life” – Lori Richardson
241. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden
242. “You don’t close a sale; you should rather open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise.” – Patricia Fripp
243. “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” – T. Harv Eker
244. “It’s not about having the right opportunities, but about handling the opportunities right.”- Mark Hunter
245. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” -Babe RuthYou just can't beat the person who never gives up Babe Ruth
246. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”
247. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
248. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” — Joe Namath.
249. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin.
250. “When selling (and/or influencing), your expertise can become your enemy.” Mike Bosworth - Story Seekers
251. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.”
252. “The days of the authoritarian alpha male leaders have ended. Good leadership is about inclusiveness.” Aurorasa Sima
253. Focus on progress, not perfection.
254. “You are the product. You feeling something. That’s what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can’t do what we do and they hate us for it.”
255. Quality performance starts with a positive attitude. -Jeffrey Gitomer
256. “Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” -Bette Midler
257. “The seed that we planted in this man’s mind may change everything.”
258. “Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
259. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” -Pablo Picasso
260. “People trust more, listen more, buy more when they learn about you from someone they respect and trust.” – Jennifer Gluckow
261. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” — Teddy Roosevelt.
262. “On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire” – Larry D. Turner
263. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
264. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” Robert Staubach
265. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
266. Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. That’s the attitude separating great salespeople from others. - Vince Lombardi
267. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
268. “Make a customer, not a sale.” Katherine Barchetti
269. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
270. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
271. “A fool with a (sales) tool is still a fool” – Jill Rowley
272. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey
273. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
274. “I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”
275. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
276. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky
277. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill.
278. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”– Steve Jobs
279. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity: an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
280. “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
281. Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet. –Sadie Delany
282. If you see it inside of your head, at some point, you will see it in front of your eyes.
283. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James.
284. “Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.”
285. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” -B. Smith
286. “Don’t take it personally.” – Grant Olsen
287. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt.
288. “What we dwell on is who we become.” – Oprah Winfrey
289. “Past performance is not indicative of future results.” – Stock exchange risk disclaimer
290. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John Maxwell
291. “Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.” – Zig Ziglar, legendary sales author and speaker
292. “It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching and closing. It is about listening, diagnosing and prescribing.” — Mark Roberge.
293. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” -Audrey Hepburn
294. “You have to learn to keep your eyes on an ultimate goal. If you lose sight of that goal, you have to get out.” -Hamdi Ulukaya
295. “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” – Yogi Berra
296. A successful salesperson wakes up with determination every morning and goes to bed with satisfaction. Perseverance will be your best friend.
297. “If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
298. “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” — Omar Periu.
299. “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar
300. All business is personal... Make your friends before you need them. -Robert L. Johnson
301. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
302. “It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.” — Warren Buffett.
303. “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
304. “No pain, no change.” Mike Bosworth - Solution Selling
305. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24 hour days.” Zig Ziglar
306. “[Sales and marketing] have to start talking to each other. They’ve got to stop spilling each other’s beers.” – Ann Handley
307. “Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.” – Ben Feldman
308. I don't have dreams; I have goals. - Harvey Specter
309. “There is no easy button in sales. Prospecting is hard, emotionally draining work, but it is the price you have to pay to earn a high income.” – Jeb Blount
310. “Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.” Ben Friedman
311. There’s never any guarantee that anyone will like you. So if anyone likes you at all, you’ve already won. -Chelsea Handler
312. The secret to getting ahead lies in getting started. Start now. What are you waiting for?
313. “How you sell is more important than what you sell.” – Andy Paul
314. “There is always room at the top.” — Daniel Webster.
315. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” — Zig Ziglar.
316. “Businesses make most mistakes when times are good - not when times are bad.” Alfred Herrhausen
317. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
318. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
319. Sometimes later becomes never. Don’t let anything stop you from doing it now.
320. “What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.”- Jill Konrath
321. “50 % of business is psychology. Business is a party of people - not computers.” Alfred Herrhausen
322. “Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.” Earl Nightingale
323. Ask your direct reports about what kind of management they would prefer
324. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” – Roy T. Bennett
325. High expectations are the key to everything. -Sam Walton
326. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. -Bruce Lee
327. “Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil
328. Your past does not equal your future.
329. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale
330. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” -Ginni Rometty
331. When you feel like quitting, think about why you started in the first place.
332. “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan, prepare and expect to win.” Zig Ziglar
333. “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” — Yogi Berra.
334. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -Norman Ralph Augustine
335. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” -Shirley Chisholm
336. “It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching and closing. It is about listening, diagnosing and prescribing.” – Mark Roberge
337. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. -Florence Nightingale
338. “Never ever chase money. You should chase success, because with success money follows.” -Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
339. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln
340. “Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing.” — Warren Buffet.
341. Do what others do not, and you will get what others would not.
342. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln.
343. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein.
344. Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes. -Bette Midler
345. “Remember to send your clients reminder emails before the jobs have started or even thank you emails after.” – Housecall Pro
346. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
347. You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe. -Leymah Gbowee
348. “Don’t bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.” – Peter Dinklage
349. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs
350. “What we dwell on is who we become.”- Oprah Winfrey
351. Great things never come from comfort zones.
352. “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson
353. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
354. I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be done, then I push harder. -Issa Rae
355. “The key is not to call the decision-maker. The key however is to have the decision maker call you.”- Jeffrey Gitomer
356. “Luck” is imaginary. Lucky people are often the ones working to get what they want.
357. “The sales compensation plan is Batman, the sales contest is Robin.” – Mark Roberge
358. What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas. -Jill Konrath
359. “Practice is just as valuable as sales. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune. ” – Jim Konrath
360. “Hey, here’s a gourd!’ is not so different as, ‘Hey, here’s enterprise sales software!’ The language changes, but the humans are the same.” – Chris Pen
361. “If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.” – Majora Carter
362. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
363. “If you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.” –Russell Simmons
364. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” -Erica Jong
365. “Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” – Oscar Wilde
366. “The key to this business is personal relationships.”
367. “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her to solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” – Brian Tracy
368. Change before you have to. -Jack Welch
369. “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.
370. “What counts is not necessarily the dog in the fight - it´s the fight in the dog.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
371. “Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.” — Jeffrey Gitomer.
372. “Numbers alone won’t fix anything. But they will help you identify where the problem is.”- Steli Efti
373. “If you don’t believe in what you’re selling, neither will your prospect.”-Frank Bettger
374. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin.
375. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.”- Norman Ralph Augustine
376. “Accept failure as part of the process.” — Unknown.
377. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
378. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln
379. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” Robert Shuller
380. There is little success where there is little laughter.”- Andrew Carnegie
381. “Sales enablement can’t be reactive. It has to be a full-blown strategy that’s woven into the fabric of the company.” – Roderick Jefferson
382. “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” –Sadie Delany
383. “Filter everything you’re doing, saying, and pitching and you’ll eventually improve just about every metric you care about today.”- Matt Heinz
384. “Today is always the most productive day of your week.” – Mark Hunter
385. “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” – Omar Periu
386. You just can't beat the person who never gives up. -Babe Ruth
387. “For every sale you miss because you're enthusiastic, you miss a hundred you're not enthusiastic enough.” Zig Ziglar
388. “Care enough to create value for customers. If you get that part right, selling is easy.” –Anthony Iannarino
389. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.”
390. Do not focus on numbers. Focus on doing what you do best. -Cassey Ho
391. “Being defeated is only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” Marilyn von Savant
392. “Remember that failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.”
393. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” — Bob Hooey.
394. “There is no magic to closing. There are no magic phrases. Closing the deal is completely dependent on the situation.” – Alice Heiman
395. “If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.” -Roy T. Bennett
396. “SELLING is really about having conversations with people while helping them improve their company or their life.”- Lori Richardson
397. Done is worth more than perfect.
398. Sales is not about being perfect; it is about being persistent.
399. “Begin always expecting good things to happen.” – Tom Hopkins
400. “Killer salespeople uncover true problems behind desired solutions.” – Aaron Ross
401. Never, ever, ever stop following up. It can be nerve-wracking, but it is essential in the game of sales!
402. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.”
403. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt.
404. “Leadership belongs to those who take it.” — Sheryl Sandberg.
405. “Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald
406. “If people like you, they will listen to you, but if they trust you, they will do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar
407. “In Business and in Life. You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.” Lester Karrass
408. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”- Thomas Paine
409. “Some men see things as they are and ask why … I dream of things that never were and ask why not?” – Robert Kennedy
410. “What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.” – Jill Konrath
411. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill.
412. “In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.” – Bo Bennett
413. People are starving for decisiveness. If you can give it to them, you can rule the world.
414. Hustle in silence with determination. Let your success make the noise.
415. “Do not let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
416. “In high-productivity sales organizations, salespeople do not cause customer acquisition growth, rather they fulfill it.” – Aaron Ross
417. “Sometimes the most influential thing we can do it listen.” – Bob Burg
418. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.” – Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO, VaynerMedia
419. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. But it is courage that counts.”- Winston Churchill
420. “Establishing trust is better than any sales technique.” — Mike Puglia.
421. “Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.” George Van Valkenburg
422. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.” – William Clement Stone
423. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
424. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
425. “Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 percent is persuasion.” – Shiv Khera
426. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time” – Thomas Edison
427. “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” Milton Berle
428. “Sales success comes from the right balance of quality human interaction and appropriate use of supplemental tools.” – Deb Calvert
429. “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” – Jill Konrath
430. “The real problem with closing is not adequately defining or diagnosing the prospect’s problems in the first place.”– Keith Eades
431. “Leaders must get across the why as well as the what.”- John Doerr
432. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because it does.”- William James
433. Remember, people don’t believe it when WE say it, they believe it when THEY say it “- Shari Levitin
434. “The story is the heart of the sale.” — Matthew Pollard.
435. “You have to drop your sales mentality. Instead, start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.”
436. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs.
437. “Nobody likes to be sold to, but everybody likes to buy.” – Earl Taylor
438. “Establishing trust is better than any sales technique.” – Mike Puglia, Chief Marketing Officer, Kaseya
439. “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” -Christopher Morley
440. “A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.” – Harvey Mackay
441. “If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.” Zig Ziglar
442. “You don't compete on price. You compete on relationships.” – Patricia Fripp
443. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins.”- Edith Wharton
444. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan.
445. “80% of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
446. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
447. If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. -Shirley Chisholm
448. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.” – Jocko Willink
449. Become the person who would attract the results you seek. -Jim Cathcart
450. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favour.” – Brian Tracy
451. I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard. -Estée Lauder
452. “I hated every minute of training, but I thought to myself, ‘Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali
453. “Customers don’t care at all whether you close the deal or not. They care about improving their business.” – Aaron Ross
454. “If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.” -Majora Carter
455. “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.” – John Wooden
456. “Well done is better than well said.”- Benjamin Franklin
457. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” -Oprah Winfrey
458. “Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, but never use the word ‘sorry.’ “- Trish Bertuzzi
459. “When reps take the role of a curious student rather than an informed expert, buyers are much more inclined to engage.” – Jeff Hoffman
460. “Before LinkedIn and other social networks, in the sales world, ABC stood for Always Be Closing. Now it means Always Be Connecting.” – Jill Rowley
461. “Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.”—Diane McLaren
462. “HUMANIZE the sales process or perish.”- Steli Efti
463. “Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
464. The quality of the questions you ask yourself determines the quality of your life. If you are not questioning yourself, what are you even doing?
465. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” -Og Mandino
466. “For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.”
467. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark TwainThe secret of getting ahead is getting started Mark Twain
468. “To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.” – Harvey Mackay
469. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers
470. “Be so good, they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
471. “Either run the day or the day runs you.”
472. “There is always room at the top.”- Daniel Webster
473. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all deadly sins. -Edith Wharton
474. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because it does.”– William James
475. “You don't close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a successful business.” Patricia Fripp
476. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” — Og Mandino.
477. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”- Babe Ruth
478. “Trying is winning in the moment.” – Dan Waldschmidt
479. “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” — Henry Ford.
480. “In sales, a referral is a key to the door of resistance.” – Bo Bennett
481. “Treat objections as requests for further information.” – Brian Tracy
482. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney
483. “If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.”
484. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.” – W. Clement Stone
485. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn.
486. “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s rather about handling the opportunities right.”– Mark Hunter
487. “There will be obstacles and there will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps
488. “Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
489. “Fear is the destroyer of dreams and the killer of ambitions.” – Jeffrey Benjamin
490. “There is no magic in closing. There are no magic phrases. Closing a deal is completely dependent on the situation.” – Alice Heiman
491. “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
492. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
493. “Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh
494. “To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship.” — Patricia Fripp.
495. “Before LinkedIn and other social networks, in the sales world, ABC stood for Always Be Closing. But now it means Always Be Connecting.” – Jill Rowley
496. “Timid salesmen have skinny kids.”
497. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
498. Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you will surely get the result.”- Oscar Wilde
499. “By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” – Robert Frost
500. “Customers don’t care at all whether you close the deal or not. They care about improving their business.” — Aaron Ross.
501. “There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.”
502. “Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”
503. “I never lose. I either win or learn.” – Nelson MandelaI never lose. I either win or learn Nelson Mandela
504. “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. You want to get rich, but you don’t want to make cold calls. Make the cold call.” – Grant Cardone
505. Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. -Jennifer Lopez
506. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” — Sheryl Sandberg.
507. “We cannot solve our problem with the same thinking we used when we created it.” Albert Einstein
508. “Don’t watch the clock. Rather do what it does. Keep going.”- Sam Levenson
509. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great” – John D Rockefeller
510. “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.
511. “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.”
512. “BUYERS do business with you, not with your company and not with your technology.”- Joanne Black
513. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”- Walt Disney
514. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” -Babe Ruth
515. “Trying is winning in the moment.” — Dan Waldschmidt.
516. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”– Henry Ford
517. “Sales is not about selling anymore, but about building trust and educating.” – Siva Devaki
518. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.” Ann Landers
519. “It’s 2019 and the days of people being susceptible to cheesy, sleazy, sales ads are long gone.” – Hailey Lucas
520. “Fear is the destroyer of dreams and the killer of ambitions.” Jeffrey Benjamin
521. “Every email is an opportunity to test a different benefit or angle.” – Heather R Morgan
522. “This tool has the power to reshape our professional lives and potentially save hours of work each week.”
523. “Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues.” – Neil Rackham
524. “Change before you have to.” Jack Welch
525. . The secret to getting ahead lies in getting started. Start now. What are you waiting for?
526. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.”- William Clement Stone
527. “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” -Jill Konrath
528. “Expect to make mistakes when you are trying new and different approaches.” – Harvey Mackay
529. “The key is not to call the decision-maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
530. Practice like you have never won; play as you have never lost! That is how you thrive as a salesperson!
531. “Before LinkedIn and other social networks, in the sales world, ABC stood for Always Be Closing. Now it means Always Be Connecting.” — Jill Rowley.
532. “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.
533. “Yes is the destination – No is how you get there.” – Andrea Waltz
534. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
535. “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.
536. You have to learn to keep your eyes on an ultimate goal. If you lose sight of that goal, you have to get out. -Hamdi Ulukaya
537. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything.“ – John Wooden
538. “The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head.” – Barbara Corcoran
539. “Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell Ideas. Not stuff.” –Aaron Ross
540. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
541. “It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.”
542. “If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.” – Chester A. Arthur
543. “We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”- George S. Patton
544. “Leadership belongs to those who take it.” -Sheryl Sandberg
545. “People don’t buy because what you do is awesome. People buy because it makes them feel awesome.” – Tara Gentile
546. “If you do not have a defined process that moves your people forward so they can achieve greater results, then what is it you are managing?”- Keith Rosen
547. “Great things are done by a series of small things done together.” – Vincent van Gogh
548. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine.
549. “Never say more than is necessary.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
550. “There’s never any guarantee that anyone will like you. So if anyone likes you at all, you’ve already won.” -Chelsea Handler
551. “People don’t just buy your products that they can see; they buy your attitude that they can sense.” – Roxanne Emmerich
552. “A-B-C. Always Be Closing.” – Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross
553. “How you sell is more important than what you sell.” – Andy Paul, author, speaker and strategist, Zero-Time Selling
554. You need to be okay with losing if you are truly committed to winning.
555. “Buyers do business with you, not with your company and not with your technology.” – Joanne Black
556. Charisma might open doors for you, but the character will keep you in the building. Continuously work on yourself.
557. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein.
558. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
559. “Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” -Michelle Obama
560. Success is never owned, only rented - and the rent is due every day. So, get cracking today. Never stop hustling.
561. “When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” – Sydney J. Harris
562. “Prospecting — find the man with the problem.” — Benjamin Friedman.
563. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
564. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
565. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” – Richard Branson
566. “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
567. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
568. “The key is not to call the decision-maker. The key is to have the decision-maker call you.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
569. If you do not take care of your customers, your competitors certainly will! You do not want that in this economy. So, pull yourself up and get to work.
570. “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
571. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
572. Allow them to choose their rewards
573. “Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
574. “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” Estée Lauder.
575. “Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion, and the determination to keep going anyway.” – Nick Gleason
576. “Start working with your prospects as if they have already hired you.” – Jill Konrath
577. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” -Rosa Parks
578. “It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.”- Warren Buffett
579. “Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.” John Maxwell
580. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
581. “Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.” -Ava DuVernay
582. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
583. The dream is free, but the hustle is not! Be prepared for long nights, working weekends, and crazy deadlines. The reward is worth it.
584. “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
585. “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
586. “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
587. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain.
588. “Value the relationship more than the quota.”- Jeff Gitomer
589. “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” — Mark Hunter.
590. “After a positive experience, 83% of customers would be happy to provide a referral” – MyRoofingPal
591. “Buyers do business with YOU, not with your company and not with technology.” – Joanne Black
592. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”- John R. Wooden
593. Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal. -Ava DuVernay
594. “Show me the money!”
595. If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong place. Switch rooms, change your life!
596. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
597. “Selling through social channels is the closest thing to being a fly on the wall in your customers, prospects and competitors’ world.” – Jim Keenan
598. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” -Jim Cathcart
599. “There is no easy button in sales. Prospecting is hard, emotionally draining work, and it is the price you have to pay to earn a high income.” – Jeb Blount
600. “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” – Wayne Gretzky
601. “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”
602. “I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.” – Gustav Mahler
603. “You are 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
604. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
605. 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
606. What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time. -Don Zimmer
607. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn
608. Trust trumps transactions. Never disappoint your customers. They should always be your #1 priority - no matter what anyone else says.
609. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
610. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Teddy Roosevelt
611. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Napolean Hill.
612. “I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?” Jill Konrath.
613. Never ever chase money. You should chase success, because with success money follows. -Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
614. “Create your future from your future not your past.” –Werner Erhard Tweet: “Create your future from your future not your past.” – Werner Erhard, via @cfsplaybook
615. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
616. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
617. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
618. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
619. “High-level buyers want to talk to people who know more than they do. They hunger not for information but insight.”– Barbara Weaver Smith
620. “Either run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn.
621. “Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.” – Dan Waldschmidt, Co-CEO, Edgy Inc.
622. “The story is the heart of the sale.” Matthew Pollard.
623. I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes. -B. Smith
624. Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then. -Diana Ross
625. “Nobody likes to be sold to, but everybody likes to buy.”
626. “Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.” – Dan Waldschmidt
627. 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
628. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney.
629. Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion. -Tina Fey
630. Growth and comfort do not coexist. -Ginni Rometty
631. “The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse.” – John Mason
632. “True productivity comes from allowing yourself to make mistakes. Do so, and you’ll succeed more often than any ten perfectionists.” – Laura Stack
633. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
634. “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
635. “Every dollar makes sense.” – Lyfe Accounting
636. “Everyone will think it's stupid!”
637. “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on discipline.” — Jocko Willink.
638. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”- Bobby Unser
639. “The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say.” Tom Freese
640. “Excellence is not a skill, but an attitude”
641. “You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”- Aristotle
642. “Content is the fuel for your lead generation efforts.” – Dayna Rothman
643. You can’t give up! If you give up, you’re like everybody else. -Chris Evert
644. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
645. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser
646. “It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching, and closing. But it is about listening, diagnosing and prescribing.”- Mark Roberge
647. A goal is a dream with a deadline. -Napoleon Hill
648. “Make a customer, not a sale.”
649. “This is the time to show them everything. Make sure they remember you.”
650. Feedback is what champions thrive on. Do not be afraid to get feedback now and then. It is a great tool to improve yourself.
651. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” – Jim Cathcart
652. “Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
653. “Don’t celebrate closing a sale, celebrate opening a relationship.” – Patricia Fripp
654. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
655. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
656. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.” – Zig Ziglar
657. “Either run the day or the day runs you.” -Jim Rohn
658. Start with expecting great things for yourself. Then, go out and do them. Don’t let anything or anyone stop you from achieving your goals. - Michael Jordan
659. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs.
660. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
661. “Try not to become a person of success, but try to become a person of value.” Albert Einstein
662. “The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.” – Jill Konrath
663. “Humanize the sales process or perish.” – Steli Efti
664. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” — Lucille Ball.
665. “The ordinary focus on what they’re getting. The extraordinary think about who they’re becoming.” – Unknown
666. “You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they’ve already hired you.” – Jill Konrath
667. “Either run the day or the day runs you.”- Jim Rohn
668. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
669. “I think the biggest mistake that salespeople make today is that they try to pretend they’re not salespeople.” – Irreverent Sales Girl
670. “We are not here to take part. We are here to take over.” – Conor McGregor
671. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John C. Maxwell
672. “You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.” -Diana Ross
673. “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
674. “If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales, you probably aren’t doing enough asking.” – Jack Canfield
675. “If you don’t believe in what you’re selling, neither will your prospect.” — Frank Bettger.
676. “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” – Unknown
677. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins.” — Edith Wharton.
678. “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
679. “Change before you have to.” — Jack Welch.
680. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
681. Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible!' -Audrey Hepburn
682. “Make a customer, not a sale.” – Katherine Barchetti
683. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman — not the attitude of the prospect.” – W Clement Strong.
684. “The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.” – Jill Konrath
685. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”- Joe Namath
686. “Selling is essentially a transference of feelings.”– Zig Ziglar
687. “It comes down to executing well — actually improving upon what you already have — to see the clear return on investment.” – Brad Smith
688. You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. –Marian Wright Edelman
689. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. -Sheryl Sandberg
690. “You just can't beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
691. “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” — Henry David Thoreau.
692. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi
693. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton.
694. “Today is always the most productive day of your week.”
695. “A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing.”
696. Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abraham Lincoln
697. “Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.” -Tina Fey
698. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C.S. Lewis
699. “There is little success where there is little laughter.” Andrew Carnegie.
700. “Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
701. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
702. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
703. “Don’t give up on something you believe in, you will find a way.” – Roy T. Bennett
704. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson.
705. You cannot sell to others if you are not sold yourself.
706. “Leadership belongs to those who take it.” – Sheryl Sandberg
707. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”- Zig Ziglar
708. “Find the top 10% salesman in my field and find out what they do differently.” – Brian Tracy, The Psychology of Selling”
709. “Obstacles can´t stop you. Problems can´t stop you. Only you can stop you.” Jeffrey Gitomer
710. “Most people think ‘selling’ is the same as ‘talking’. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job.”
711. “Solve customer problems and make sure that the customer is representative of a large market and then you will have a pretty good formula.” -Melanie Perkins
712. “I never see failure as a failure, but only as the game I must play and win.” – Tom Hopkins
713. “Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn.
714. “True nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
715. “People are influenced to change by people they trust.” Mike Bosworth - Story Seekers
716. “Trying is winning at the moment.”- Dan Waldschmidt
717. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.” – W. Clement Stone
718. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” Dwight Eisenhower
719. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” — Babe Ruth.
720. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” — Zig Ziglar.
721. Clarity is power. No one can get anything done without clarity.
722. “Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” -Diana Ross
723. If you're going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill
724. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything.“ — John Wooden.
725. Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. -Ella Fitzgerald
726. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. -Christopher Morley
727. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
728. “Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.” — Dan Waldschmidt.
729. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. -Og Mandino
730. “The hard is what makes it great.”
731. If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way. -Roy T. Bennett
732. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison.
733. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
734. “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”
735. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” Og Mandino
736. Fear is the road sign to growth and success.
737. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller.
738. “Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.” – Shiv Khera
739. Success happens at the exact moment you do not feel like it.
740. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
741. “For every sale you miss because you were too enthusiastic, you’ll miss a hundred because you weren’t enthusiastic enough.” – Zig Ziglar
742. Amateurs sit around and wait to get inspired. The rest of us get up and get to work. – Stephen King
743. If you cannot do it, you must do it.
744. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
745. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford.
746. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” – Norman Ralph Augustin
747. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” -Bruce Lee
748. “I never lose. I either win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela
749. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas Edison
750. “How you sell matters. What your process is matters. But how your customers feel when they engage with you matters more.” – Tiffani Bova
751. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson.
752. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin, Founder and CEO, Seth Godin Productions
753. “If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got.” – W. L. Bateman
754. “To be interesting, be interested.”
755. If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems. -Majora Carter
756. “Treat objections as requests for further information.” — Brian Tracy
757. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.”- Jim Cathcart
758. “We have to say what we think. We have to do what we say. And then we have to be what we say.” Alfred Herrhausen
759. “If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.” — Roy T. Bennett.
760. “If you are not making mistakes then you are not doing anything.” – John Wooden
761. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
762. “Treat objections as requests for further information.” — Brian Tracy.
763. “Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients – those are the ones who stand out.” — Deb Calvert.
764. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
765. “Success comes from standing out, not fitting in.”
766. “Focus on being productive instead of being busy.” – Tim Ferriss
767. “Excellence is not a skill. It´s an attitude.” Ralph Marston
768. “You can’t propose a mutually beneficial business relationship until you can’t understand their business.”– Craig Rosenberg
769. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman — not the attitude of the prospect.” — William Clement Stone.
770. “When a team takes ownership of its problem, problems get solved.” — Jocko Willink.
771. “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour.” – John Heywood
772. “Indulge your customers through engaging storytelling” – Ecom Academy
773. “I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.” – Mia Hamm
774. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
775. “Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see than you have time to see them.” – Brian Tracy
776. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
777. “Fortune favors the bold.” — Virgil.
778. “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” Peter Drucker
779. “Leaders must get across the why as well as the what.” – John Doerr
780. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” — Winston Churchill.
781. “Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” – Diana Ross
782. “You just can't beat the person who never gives up.” Babe Ruth
783. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” — James Cameron.
784. Be miserable or motivate yourself. It is always your choice to do what you are supposed to do. - Wayne Dyer
785. “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”- John Madden
786. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” Amelia Earhart
787. “Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.” – Bob Burg
788. “Stop saying LATER. You won’t do it later. Do it or decide not to do it.” – Chris Brogan
789. “Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.” – Warren Buffett
790. “To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. “ Andre Malraux
791. ‘Without hustle, your talent will only get you so far.” – Gary Vaynerchuck
792. Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. -Sam Levenson
793. “There is no magic to closing. There are no magic phrases. Closing the deal is completely dependent on the situation.” — Alice Heiman.
794. “We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” — George S. Patton.
795. “You don’t have to be liked to be trusted.” – Keenan, CEO/President, A Sales Guy
796. Expect the yes and embrace the no. That is how you master the close!
797. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert Schuller
798. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
799. “Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” – John Wooden
800. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney.
801. “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you surely don’t know what you’re doing.”- Edward Deming
802. “Expect the best, prepare for the worst, and capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar
803. “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday”. -Eleanor Roosevelt
804. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
805. “The best salespeople know that their expertise can become their enemy in selling.” – Mike Bosworth, author, speaker and sales trainer, Mike Bosworth Leadership
806. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
807. “Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
808. “Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.” – Steve Jobs
809. “We must focus on purposes instead of just setting goals, for long-term vision is what keeps us from being frustrated by short-term failure.” – Dan Clark
810. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. -George Addair
811. 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
812. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” — Wayne Dyer.
813. “To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship.” – Patricia Fripp
814. “Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.” — Bob Burg.
815. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson.
816. “It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.” Warren Buffet
817. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bs story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”
818. “High-level buyers want to talk to people who know more than they do. They hunger not for information but insight.” – Barbara Weaver Smith
819. “The customer doesn’t care about features, rather they care about solving their problems.”– Trish Bertuzzi
820. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” -Leymah Gbowee
821. ”Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
822. “Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
823. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
824. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee.
825. “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
826. Solve customer problems and make sure that the customer is representative of a large market and then you will have a pretty good formula. -Melanie Perkins
827. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” Thomas Edison
828. “Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.“ – Bob Burg
829. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” -Napoleon Hill
830. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -Thomas Edison
831. “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” -John Madden
832. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”- Florence Nightengale
833. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” Seth Godin
834. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” — Don Zimmer.
835. “You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise.” – Patricia Fripp
836. “Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder”
837. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”– Zig Ziglar
838. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” – Lisa Stone
839. Understand their personal and professional goals
840. “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!” – Marvin Phillips
841. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” -Abraham Lincoln
842. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins.” -Edith Wharton
843. “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare
844. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
845. The harder you work, the luckier you get.’’ -Mike Adenuga
846. “There is no magic to closing. There are no magic phrases. But, closing the deal is completely dependent on the situation.”- Alice Heiman
847. “Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell Ideas. Not stuff.” – Aaron Ross
848. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin
849. The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. -John Madden
850. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou