25 Inspiring Sales Quotes for Your Marketing Team

The sales department of every business organisation is like the company’s life-blood. Sometimes, your sales team can feel like a million bucks and want to pump up again, at other times, they may be struggling to pick themselves up after a harsh rejection, some useful inspiring tips can help motivate them to go all the way. Here are 25 inspiring sales quotes from global CEOs, business minds and seasoned entrepreneurs for your marketing team and salespeople to help them take control, be encouraged and remind them why they do what they do even in the most trying moments and difficult days.

1. “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
2. “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
3. “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, but you will also succeed in life.” – Mary Kay Ash.
4. “Always do your best. What you plant now, will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
5. “For every sale, you miss because you were too enthusiastic, you’ll miss a hundred because you weren’t enthusiastic enough.” – Zig Ziglar
6. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield
7. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
8. “Allow other people to speak first; the important factor is not who talks… it’s who listens.” – Ilana Eberson
9. “People don’t buy because what you do is awesome. People buy because it makes them feel awesome.” – Tara Gentile
10. “Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.”  – Dale Carnegie
11. “Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin
12. “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.” – Harvey Mackay
13. “Success demands planning, patience, and passion.” – Dan Waldschmidt
14. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates
15. “Ninety per cent of selling is conviction and 10 per cent is persuasion.” – Shiv Khera
16. “In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.” – David Ogilvy
17. “The key to mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you – how great you are, and what you do – to statements about them.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
18. “The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse.” – John Mason
19. “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
20. “Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.” – Ben Feldman
21. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” – David Brinkley
22. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
23. “Be so good, they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
24. “It is not your customer’s job to remember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you.” – Patricia Fripp
25. “80% of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen

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