{"id":3242,"date":"2017-03-23T02:20:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T02:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2017-03-23T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T02:20:04","slug":"15-quotes-to-inspire-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/15-quotes-to-inspire-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Quotes to Inspire Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00a0got the the idea from twitter to find inspirational taglines and quotes. You see them everywhere on tweets from certain profiles. I wanted to find some of my own that\u00a0inspire and motivate people to sell. It’s cool to see that some of these quotes are about how you need to listen and understand the customer’s needs, while some are just simply about smarts and motivation. I think there is a good variety in these quotes.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cYou don\u2019t close a sale, you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise.\u201d <\/em>~Patricia Fripp <\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. \u201cWhenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.\u201d ~<\/em>Thomas J. Watson Jr<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. \u201c<\/em><\/strong>Everyone lives by selling something.<\/em>\u201d ~<\/em><\/strong>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. \u201cIn order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.\u201d<\/em> ~<\/em>Nikos Kazantzakis<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. \u201c<\/em><\/strong>How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.<\/em>\u201d ~<\/em><\/strong>Gilbert K. Chesterton\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  6. \u201cAs you travel down life\u2019s highway\u2026whatever be your goal, you cannot sell a doughnut without acknowledging the hole.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>~Harold J. Shayler<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. \u201cEvery sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.\u201d\u00a0~<\/strong><\/em>Zig Ziglar<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. \u201cAnd old Dave, he\u2019d go up to his room, y\u2019understand, put on his green velvet slippers \u2013 I\u2019ll never forget \u2013 and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.\u201d ~<\/em>Arthur Miller (1915 \u2013 2005),\u00a0Death of a Salesman<\/em>, 1949.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  9. \u201cA mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.\u201d <\/em>~<\/em>Mary Kay Ash\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. \u201c<\/strong>Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.\u201d ~<\/em>Karl Marx<\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. \u201cOn any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a Millionaire.\u201d<\/em> ~<\/em><\/strong>Larry D. Turner<\/strong><\/li>\n
  12. \u201cIt\u2019s just called \u2018The Bible\u2019 now. We dropped the word \u2018Holy\u2019 to give it a more mass-market appeal.\u201d<\/em> ~<\/em><\/strong>Editor, Hodder & Stoughton\u00a0The Daily Telegraph<\/em>, 30 Dec 1989.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  13. \u201cIt used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.\u201d<\/em> ~<\/em><\/strong>Nicholas Johnson\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. \u201cMost people think \u201cselling\u201d is the same as \u201ctalking\u201d. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job.\u201d<\/em> ~<\/em>Roy Bartell<\/strong><\/li>\n
  15. \u201cIf you work just for money, you\u2019ll never make it. But if you love what you are doing,and always put the customer first, success will be yours.\u201d ~<\/strong>Ray Kroc<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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