Motivational Sales Quotes To Inspire You

Almost everyone has faced rejection or negativity. Whether it is a sales guru or a salesperson who is barely out of college – facing rejection is even more common in the sales avenue. However, the key is to make this failure is the main ingredient which gave them their Success. So the next time you face failure or rejection, Don’t give up, Don’t look back, Don’t let go. Keep your head held high and remember these few motivational sales quotes in order to face all the obstacles that come in your way.

Motivational Sales Quotes to Start Your Day

1. “Great salespeople [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.” ~ Barbara Corcoran

2. “Prospecting – Find the man with the problem.” – Ben Friedman

3. “Begin by always expecting good things to happen.” – Tom Hopkins

4. “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.” – Zig Ziglar

5. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

6. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” – Jim Cathcart

7. “Sucess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill

8. “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

9. “I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.” – Zig Ziglar

10. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins

11. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine

12. “Every sale has five obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar

13. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson

14. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

15. “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin

16. “You can’t learn anything if you are doing all the talking. Sales people should always be developing their earQ, not their IQ. The only way to create a successful sale is to understand that knowledge from listening does not become power until it is used. And ideas without action are worthless.” ~ Harvey Mackay

17. “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” – Mark Hunter

18. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

19. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

20. “Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.” ~ Philip Kotler

21. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey

22. “Strategy is indeed about choosing what not to do as well as what to do. A business unit needs to decide what need it aims to satisfy in what group of people and with what value proposition that distinguishes the business from its competitors.” – Philip Kotler

23. “Make a customer, not a sale.” – Katherine Barchetti

24. “Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see that you have time to see them.” – Brian Tracy

25. “Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders.” – Philip Kotler

26. “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

27. “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

28. “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” – Omar Periu

29. “Expect the best, Prepare for the worst, Capitalize on what comes.” – Zig Ziglar

30. “Value the relationship more than making your quota.” – Jeffrey Gitomer

31. “Sales is the most important aspect of a company, which in turn is about how well you treat your customer and stay ahead of your customer’s requirements.” – Mark Cuban

32. “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” – Mark Victor Hansen

33. “The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow, you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.” – Warren Buffett

34. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” – Steve Jobs

35. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn

36. “Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.” – Bob Burg

37. “Treat objections as requests for further information.” – Brian Tracy

38. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

39. “Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.” – David Brooks

40. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” – Zig Ziglar

Related: 30 Best Zig Ziglar Quotes To Inspire Greatness In Life and In Business

41. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.” – W. Clement Stone

42. “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 Covey

43. “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.” – Roy Bartell

44. “No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don’t know what’s going to happen until you do it.” – Konosuke Matsushita

45. “Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.” – Ben Feldman

46. “What we dwell on is who we become.” – Oprah Winfrey

47. “The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” – Martina Navratilova

48. “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” – Thomas J. Watson Jr

49. “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.” – Mary Kay Ash

50. “Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” – Karl Marx

 

Summing it all up

I hope you are motivated to make your next sales call now. It is imperative to read such stuff regularly and watch videos that help you get through your busy day.

If these motivational quotes are not enough to pump your blood and get down to prospecting, then we have some more amazing inspirational quotes and sales advice for you. We recently rounded up some amazing tips and bits of advice from the best sales professionals out there.