Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

The entrepreneur must be the best salesperson and marketer in his business.

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.

No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at once - raising money, writing software, prototyping, selling, collecting, training, and marketing.

First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.

I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

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

I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

I'm good at sales. I enjoy it.

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.

I was fascinated to see that if you knew what you were doing, you could sell a $3,000 computer system over the phone.

Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.

This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.

Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome.

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

I found in direct selling companies an education system designed to draw out the rich person in you.

Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.

Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.