17 motivational sales quotes to get started.
Updated: Jan 22
The biggest challenge i see today with sales and marketing is sales people are late to adopt change and new channels of marketing. The fear of failure? what if it does not work? Change is the only constant in todays business world given the ever evolving world of technology. If you look back at history, you will see many Fortune 500 companies that were so robust just fell off from the highs as they refused to change and adopt new technologies. So essentially if you adopt change you are bound to fail at first, the key is to make failure the main ingredient to keep trying until you succeed. So the next time you face failure or rejection from a customer, try and figure out how you can make it better. Don’t give up, Don’t look back. Keep your head held high and remember these few motivational sales quotes in order to face all the obstacles that come in your way.
1. “Sucess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill
2. “Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.” ~ Philip Kotler
3. “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
4. “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
5. “Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuously. Always have more people to see that you have time to see them.” – Brian Tracy
6. “Every sale has five obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar
7. “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
8. “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.” – Zig Ziglar
9. “Prospecting – Find the man with the problem.” – Ben Friedman
10. “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
11. “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
12. “Make a customer, not a sale.” – Katherine Barchetti
13. “Treat objections as requests for further information.” – Brian Tracy
14. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” – Zig Ziglar
15. “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” – Thomas J. Watson Jr
16. “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
17. “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
I hope you will be inspired by these motivational sales quotes to get down to business. Make bold decisions if you must. No one strategy will work always, be prepared to make changes to the original road map, try new tricks once maybe twice, you never know how things can change and open new doors and markets for your business. Most of all keep trying till you must change course again. I will leave you with this last quote, that will hopefully keep your sales team motivated. Get started today!
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
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