Sales Techniques Quotes

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales terrifies you, get a job at a dept. store and start there. Or get a job with a company like Xerox that requires that you go around to businesses and knock on doors. As your courage increases, you may want to try a company in network marketing or direct sales that is willing to train you.

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

You sell your candidates and your programs the way a business sells its products.

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something.

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.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

Selling concerns itself with the tricks and techniques of getting people to exchange their cash for your product. It is not concerned with the values that the exchange is all about. And it does not, as marketing invariable does, view the entire business process as consisting of a tightly integrated effort to discover, create, arouse and satisfy customer needs.

Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

What I've come to find out is it doesn't matter if you're selling a $10,000 gown or toilet paper: The everyday sort of humdrum of customer service and retail is the same.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

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

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.

Pleasing ware is half sold.

I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.

My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.

Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

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

I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.