Quotes for All
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters – people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them – not one – stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Elizabeth Warren
A salaried job trains us to be \”right\” all the time and induces an entitlement mentality. This is because we get paid the same amount no matter what work we are producing, and we begin to see this is fair and right, and we begin being trained to think we are right all the time. … Read more
I try to visit stores because it’s important to meet the teams and to hear the comments of the salespeople. Delphine Arnault
There’s an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts. Daniel H. Pink
We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance – that is, how many times the cash register actually rings – the … Read more
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non – sales selling isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections. Daniel H. Pink
Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don’t realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our … Read more
No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work. Clifford Stoll
Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result? Chris Murray
Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives. Charles M. Schwab