The 101 Best Sales Quotes of All Time (Updated 2020)

Which are your favorite sales quotes? 

Sales;

The world revolves around sales. We live and breathe in the stuff. Selling isn’t easy, and there’s a lot of science that goes into becoming a top record-smashing salesperson.

In tough times when sales are struggling, we can all become very de-motivated, and that’s when it calls for some quotes to life your spirits.

I’ve searched the web and compiled a huge list of the 101 best sales quotes of the day. Check out these motivational sales quotes and share them with all the other entrepreneurs and grinders out there.

101 Best Sales Quotes of All Time

1. “Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.” – Michael Korda

2. “So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.” – Dorothea Brande

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

4. “The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.”
– Napoleon Hill

5. “Some men see things as they are and ask why…I dream of things that never were and ask why not?” – Robert Kennedy

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

7. “Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.” – Don Cooper

8. “Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.” – Michael Schudson

9. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour day.” – Zig Ziglar

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10. “Success in sales is the result of discipline, dedication and sacrifice.” – Thomas Roy Cromwell

11. “You don’t close a sale, you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise.” – Patricia Fripp

12. “A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.” – Jeff Koons

13. “Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.” – Shiv Khera

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

15. “McDonald’s is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.” – Jim Cantalupo

16. “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust.” – Bob Burg

17. “One of the best predictors of ultimate success … isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.” – Daniel H. Pink

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

19. “To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.” – Ben Jonson

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20. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” – Anonymous

21. “Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.” – William Bernbach

22. “The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse.” – John Mason

23. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

24. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” – Brian Tracy

25. “For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.” – Zig Ziglar

26. “A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.” – Wilson Mizner

27. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Robert Buxton

28. “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” – Henry Ford

29. “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

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30. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

31. “The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” – Napoleon Hill

32. “The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.” – Jill Konrath

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

34. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson

35. “Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise.” – Anonymous

36. “Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity of more business.” – Zig Ziglar

37. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Abraham Lincoln

38. “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

39. “There is always room at the top.” – Daniel Webster

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

41. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

42. “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton

43. “To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.” – Harvey Mackay

44. “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

45. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers

46. “Stop selling. Start helping.” – Zig Ziglar

47. “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!” – Marvin Phillips

48. “The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.” – J. G. Holland

49. “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

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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

51. “Timid salesmen have skinny kids.” – Zig Ziglar

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

53. “Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” – Vince Lombardi

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

55. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino

56. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

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

58. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

59. “We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.” – George S. Patton

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60. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch

61. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” – Norman Ralph Augustine

62. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

63. “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” – Yogi Berra

64. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napolean Hill

65. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi

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

67. “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” – Christopher Morley

68. “Fortune favors the bold.” – Virgil

69. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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70. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

71. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

72. “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

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

74. “I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people.” – Jeffrey R. Immelt

75. “The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.” – Zig Ziglar

76. “In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.” – Bo Bennet

77. “I don’t do this for the money, I don’t do it for record sales, I don’t really care about that, I just want to make beats.” – David Guetta

78. “Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can’t wait for it to be more than 50%.” – Anne M. Mulcahy

79. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

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80. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

81. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein

82. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand

83. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

84. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews

85. “Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” – Philip Sydney

86. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

87. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” – Elbert Hubbard

88. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank

89. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” – Napoleon Hill

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90. “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.” – Robert W. Service

91. “As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.” – Al Yankovic

92. “One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn’t right. That mattered even over sales.” – Ines de La Fressange

93. “As a young entrepreneur starting an enterprise company, be prepared for the fact that you’ll need to get involved in enterprise sales. Everyone wants to speak to the founder, and this is also how you’ll get feedback on your product. It’s worth bringing in early somebody with enterprise sales experience.” – Anthony Goldbloom

94. “To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.” – Ben Horowitz

95. “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.” – John Caudwell

96. “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas A. Edison

97. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

98. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

99. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

100. “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

101. “Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.” – Christopher Reeve

Summary

Thanks for reading this list of great sales quotes. Keep on grinding and working hard. Hopefully, these have given you the motivation to do just that.

Which of the best sales quotes of the day is your favorite? Leave a comment below.