Quotes about selling

Active prospecting let's people know that they matter that you've sought them out.

Successful selling begins with listening. Your job when you are in front of the prospect is to ask questions and then listen to the answers. Take copious notes about what they tell you what they say and what they don't say.

All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs the rest sell what's between their ears.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell the Old Masters, set up a trust, buy your favorite brewery. But that's strictly it. You're limited by honesty on one hand and law - that hobble of sanity - on the other.

To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about myproduct or service we’ll have a meaningful conversation about itand how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don’t feelanything. Nothing at all

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

And that was when it really came home to me what I was about to do. I was going to rob a bank, committing the additional crime of arson in the process, and if I got caught I'd go to prison.Well, I thought, go on selling second-hand jalopies for another forty years and maybe somebody'll give you a testimonial and a forty-dollar watch.

You need to position yourself to your referral sources and your current clients as providing exceptional value and experiences in everything you do

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always.

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

I made my money by selling too soon.

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

A crucial factor when achieving great success in the real estate industry, or any industry for that matter, is teamwork. Unity is a place of power.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

They sell crap to buy you.

I had a dream about you last night... in it, I tried to sell a squirrel a deposit box to store his nuts in. He stole my cashews in the complimentary snack basket.

you truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, everytransaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

What you say is not as important as who you are when you're saying it.

Selling is true fun and the pleasure of selling enjoyed only when someone buys it...Selling and buying are like husband and wife, someone has to sell for someone to buy and vice-versa....Even if both are interesting, sometimes it is closely associated with needs and choice

If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards.

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

As I tell my children, 'If you are going to do something, do your best while you're doing it.

Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.

A Rainmaker creates value for the benefit of all through commitment.

The secret to your future is hidden in your daily routine. You have to be self—disciplined to spend your time wisely.

We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell dreams.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

I buy when other people are selling.

Successful prospecting depends on selecting methods that you can effectively navigate. If something makes you uncomfortable, please don't do it.

No drug or drink can match the high/kick that a Sale gives you! Though the feeling can never be expressed in words but I feel like I am the king and on top of this world!

Change your introduction so that you can change the outcome. Engage clients or they'll be thinking divorce.

Professionals never guess—they make it their business to know their business.

Everyone lives by selling something.

It is naught it is naught saith the buyer. But when he is gone his way then he boasteth.

Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Who buys has need of two eyes But one's enough to sell the stuff.

Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

Don't buy the house buy the neighborhood.

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

What costs nothing is worth nothing.

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

When you buy use your eyes and your mind not your ears.

People will buy anything that's one to a customer.

As long as you’re trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you.” (p.92)

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.

I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all.

No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don’t even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Sales professional is a profession deals with people, it's a people business not a selling job.

Sales is a constant state of information gathering and analysis. There are numerous factors that will affect your sale – from market position, to manufacturing capacity, to a seemingly harmless tidbit of information received over lunch. The more quality information you have, the better your analysis, and the better your sales results will be.

Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution.

Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!

To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be.

Unwittingly, I have sailed through my entire life, so far, with neither direction nor destination.I had a vague instinct to reach dry land every once in a while for supplies, but never anything more than that.

The reward for living my life in this manner? An existence like that of a seagull picking up scraps from the back of a fishing boat. Surviving day to day. Nothing left for tomorrow and no idea what tomorrow should be.

Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I strolled aimlessly through the years? Was I expecting my whole life to be some form of lucky accident?

I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.

You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.

Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn’t have the first clue how to get you there.

I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically for them.

The vast majority of the populace would never think of setting themselves any deadlines for the achievement of their dreams. They may have a vague notion they will get older and that one day they will probably die, but it all seems a long way away, and tomorrow will bring its own share of problems and pressing issues to fill their time.

Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?

Simeon had to agree that his future plans, although quite grand, were like pictures painted in fog. Nothing he could put his finger on. No dream ever remained unchanged long enough to take on any weight or substance, just a notion of something better waiting for him somewhere in the future.

Most people haven’t set themselves any course with regards to their life. They have no idea whether or not they are being blown in any useful direction whatsoever. They are just at the whim of wherever the winds of life take them.

I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.

How do I go about cataloguing my dreams?

Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.

If you have designed your last day on earth, if you have decided how you wish to be thought of on your deathbed, only then can you start to plot a course to that point, to your ideal final destination.

It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.

You know, I have never met a young man who recognises the true value in this exercise, and yet I have met hundreds of old men who wished someone had shared it with them in their youth.

I must turn myself around so that I am viewing life as my prospects see it. Only then can I start addressing their issues, help to prevent their pain, and advise on solutions to their problems.

No one ever reached the top of a mountain by digging underneath it.

You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever.

Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?