Whether you are selling power tools, pizza, yoga lessons, or your soul (just kidding ... I hope), these 25 motivational sales quotes are amongst the most important, meaningful -- and in some cases, also funny -- that you will find anywhere.
2. “
When someone tells me something is
impossible, all I hear is that he or she in
particular cannot do it. If it can be
thought, it can be done.
-- Brian Vaszily
3. “ Day by day, what you
do is who you become.
-- Heraclitus
4. “
Unless you walk out into the
unknown, the odds of making
a profound difference in your
life are pretty low.
-- Tom Peters
5. You gain strength,
“
courage and
confidence by every
experience in which
you really stop to look
fear in the face...You
must do the thing you
think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “
Wise people learn when they can.
Fools learn when they must.
-- The Duke of Wellington
7. Good ideas are common - what's
uncommon are people who will
work hard enough to bring them
about.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
“
8. If your work is
becoming uninteresting,
so are you. Work is an
“
inanimate thing and
can be made lively
and interesting only by
injecting yourself into it.
Your job is only as big
as you are.
-- George C. Hubbs
9. “
Success - my nomination for the
single most important ingredient is
energy well directed.
-- Louis Lundborg
10. Formal education will
make you a living;
“
self-education will
make you a fortune.
-- Jim Rohn
11. “
The wise man puts himself
last and finds himself first.
-- Lao Tsu
12. “
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
13. “
An optimist is
someone who
goes after Moby
Dick in a rowboat
and takes the
tartar sauce with
him.
-- Zig Ziglar
14. “ Be creative. Use
unconventional
thinking. And
have the guts to
carry it out.
-- Lee Iaccoca
15. “
Here is a simple but powerful rule …
always give people more than they
expect to get.
-- Nelson Boswell
16. “
Obstacles don't
have to stop you.
If you run into a
wall, don't turn
around and give
up. Figure out how
to climb it, go
through it, or work
around it.
-- Michael Jordan
17. I find it fascinating that most people
plan their vacations with better care
than they plan their lives. Perhaps
that is because escape is easier
than change.
“
-- Jim Rohn
18. “
Failure lies not in falling
down. Failure lies in not
getting up.
-- Chinese Proverb
19. To be what we are, and to
become what we are
“
capable of becoming, is
the only end of life.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
20. “
There is no scarcity of opportunity
to make a living at what you love;
there's only a scarcity of resolve
to make it happen.
-- Wayne Dyer
21. Success seems to be
connected with action.
“
Successful people
keep moving. They
make mistakes but
they never quit.
-- Conrad Hilton
22. Do what you feel in
your heart to be right -
for you'll be criticized
anyway.
“
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
23. “ The better I get, the
more I realize how
much better I can
get.
-- Martina Navratilova