Selling Quotes

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.

~ Suzy Kassem

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

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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.

~ Sonia Marciano

For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Rainmakers create growth through commitment.

~ Jonas Caino

Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.

~ Richie Norton

There is only one way to make money: sell something. You're either selling your time or a product. The secret? Productize your time. That's freedom.

~ Richie Norton

Most women sell sex, most of them just don’t take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one ‘client’ at a time).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Marketing without sales is dead.

~ Richie Norton

Feedback doesn’t tell you about yourself. It tells you about the person giving the feedback. In other words, if someone says your work is gorgeous, that just tells you about *their* taste. If you put out a new product and it doesn’t sell at all, that tells you something about what your audience does and doesn’t want. When we look at praise and criticism as information about the people giving it, we tend to get really curious about the feedback, rather than dejected or defensive.

~ Tara Mohr

Money is only a means.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.

~ Richie Norton

A $3 Cup of Coffee is Worth a Book.

~ Daniel Marques

If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping??

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity.

~ Farshad Asl

Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales...

~ Honeya

Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Sell your materials but save your morals.

~ Amit Kalantri

Early in 1967 Highsmith's agent told her why her books did not sell in paperback in America. It was, said Patricia Schartle Myrer, because they were 'too subtle', combined with the fact that none of her characters were likeable. 'Perhaps it is because I don't like anyone,' Highsmith replied. 'My last books may be about animals'.

~ Andrew Wilson

One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really no bottom to where they'll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it - a bad photocopy of a bad photocopy of what was a shit idea in the first place - the more they'll eat it up with a big fucking spoon, from dawn till dusk, from now until the end of time. It's too good.

~ John Niven

There is need to focus on selling an emotional experience instead of a mere product or service - the impression you make on others must be lasting and permanent. These experiences have to be positive and worth remembering. This will increase the chances of repeat business and referrals, guaranteeing customer loyalty. And that is what sustains businesses, brands and careers for generations! The principle remains the same for comedians, actors, footballers, musicians, sales executives or any other area of specialty.

~ Archibald Marwizi

You cannot offer quality experiences as an isolated island. Learn to work well with others on the success train. Respect those you work with and appreciate their contribution in making you the best at what you do.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Your life is connected to other key support structures that you must never neglect, including family, fans, supporters, affiliations, professional associations, religious membership and others. Your membership to such groupings must add value to others whilst you equally get the benefit they are supposed to provide their members.

~ Archibald Marwizi

One of the greatest tools you cannot do without is the media. These various means for mass communication and those involved in them must be your partners and not your enemies, you must not be afraid of them but befriend and love them. If you are going to be significant and relevant then you are going to need someone to help broadcast your voice and channel your substance to the world.

~ Archibald Marwizi

No matter how great you are at what you do, as long as you remain known only within your own family circles, then you and your talent will die in obscurity and irrelevance. Position yourself to influence the masses by having a media, marketing and communication strategy.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Tactical use of the media can be equated to power behind your skill or special ability. It is in the power of the media to help market your brand. You just need to look at Hollywood, European football, Bollywood, Nollywood, Global fashion & modeling, showbiz and even humanitarian efforts, to appreciate that the making and destroying of stars, initiatives and legends is to a greater extent influenced by the role played by the media.

~ Archibald Marwizi

The key questions and challenges that we must all continue to pose and remind this key sector (the media) should be, 'Do you realize the power you have, to build and to destroy; to promote success or failure; to bring life or death to a cause or talent; to give a platform or take it away?

~ Archibald Marwizi

If the African stars do not rise, are not known, remain obscure, their stories are not told – who and where is the African story teller? Your challenge if you are in the media is to continually ask if you are doing enough, using the appropriate strategies and at the right platforms. Let’s create and promote international and global stars with the talent and skills in our people, no one will do it for us.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Work is simply, “force x distance” or the product of a force applied to an object and the displacement of the object in the direction of the applied force…holding an object in the air does not involve any work, no matter how painful your hand will be after a few minutes… reflect on your daily activities and the results from them. Are you really working or just increasing your potential without progress or desired results? Your work must produce some movement, progress and change, by effectively using all your energies whether intellectual or physical.

~ Archibald Marwizi

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

~ Chris Murray

The value you get does not depend on what you have, but how much of it you bring to the market place. You don’t get paid when you keep your gifts at home and go to the market empty handed!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.

~ Will Advise

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

~ Ryan Lilly

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.

~ Timo Aijo

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

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

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

~ Chris Murray

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

~ Chris Murray