Sales Quotes

#1. In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. #Quote by Peter Sotos

#2. Bestseller doesn't necessarily mean good writer. I think it takes 10,000 book sales to make the bestseller's list, and at about 9 dollars a pop for my book, if I had an extra $90,000 dollars of disposable income, I'd be a bestseller tomorrow. But would I be a better writer? No, I'd be a poorer writer - about $75,000 dollars poorer. #Quote by Jarod Kintz

#3. I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales. #Quote by Slash

#4. Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself. #Quote by Jim Rohn

#5. It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano? #Quote by Leila Sales

#6. Salespeople using social media exceeded sales quotas 23 percent more often than peers not using social media. #Quote by Shannon Belew

#7. I recommend to you holy simplicity. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#8. There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization #Quote by Georges Doriot

#9. Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people. #Quote by Nancy Jo Sales

#10. I held my arm out in front of me and twisted it back and forth. Palm up. Palm down. Now you look fractured. Now you look whole. #Quote by Leila Sales

#11. This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool. #Quote by Leila Sales

#12. True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#13. How do you love yourself? Is it a love which concerns this life chiefly? Is so, you will desire to abide here forever, and you will diligently seek your worldly establishment - but if the love you bear yourself has a heavenward tendency, you will long or, at all events, you will be ready to go hence whenever it may please our Lord. #Quote by St. Francis De Sales

#14. For the nature of these activities, you can divide field visits into three categories: 1. purely technical visits or technical sales visits (e.g., demonstrations, technical requirement discovery, or troubleshooting), 2. transactional sales (e.g., dropping by to take an order), and 3. enterprise sales (e.g., running solution-design workshops, presenting to groups of decision makers). #Quote by Justin Roff-Marsh

#15. If you're subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough - like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let's say - it is only a matter of time before you start believing deep down that everything is sales and marketing, and that whenever somebody seems like they care about you or about some noble idea or cause, that person is really a salesman and really ultimately doesn't give a shit about you or some cause but really just wants something for himself. #Quote by David Foster Wallace

#16. Great marketers see potential customers as real people. They create campaigns that appeal to their, wants, needs and desires. #Quote by Stacey Kehoe

#17. Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a sales pitch: 'When lawless lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin. #Quote by Toni Morrison

#18. Do not cut down on your expenses, Increase your income! #Quote by Honeya

#19. Don't confuse efforts with results.... #Quote by C.P. Sennett

#20. The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'. #Quote by Napoleon Hill

#21. Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#22. For the existing enterprise, whether business or public-service institution, the controlling word in the term 'entrepreneurial management' is 'entrepreneurial'. For the new venture, it is 'management'. In the existing business, it is the existing that is the main obstacle to entrepreneurship. In the new venture, it is its absence. The new venture has an idea. It may have a product or a service. It may even have sales, and sometimes quite a substantial volume of them. It surely has costs. And it may have revenues and even profits. What it does not have is a 'business', a viable, operating, organized 'present' in which people know where they are going, what they are supposed to do, and what the results are or should be. But unless a new venture develops into a new business and makes sure of being 'managed', it will not survive no matter how brilliant the entrepreneurial idea, how much money it attracts, how good its products, nor even how great the demand for them. #Quote by Peter F. Drucker

#23. Do not think that you will be able to succeed in your affairs by your own efforts, but only by the assistance of God; and on setting out, consign yourself to His care, believing that He will do that which will be best for you. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#24. Use a true story jam-packed with credibility points to sidestep objections. #Quote by Matthew Pollard

#25. Bacon has been a staple of the American diet since the first European settlers, but until recently, it was consumed in a predictable, seasonal pattern. The bulk of sales came from home consumers, diners, and pancake houses, which fried it up along with eggs for breakfast. #Quote by David Sax

#26. I didn't need to be the most exciting, beautiful, beloved girl in the world. I just needed not to be me anymore. #Quote by Leila Sales

#27. I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things. #Quote by Brian Behlendorf

#28. We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales. #Quote by Sandra Tsing Loh

#29. I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll ever have! #Quote by Phyllis Diller

#30. Margins on other sales and revenues grew as a result of the growth in extended service plan revenues, which have no associated cost of sales, and the growth in our service margin, reflecting improved overhead expense absorption. #Quote by Austin Ligon

#31. Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure. #Quote by David Ogilvy

#32. Social networking can also have a negative effect on relationships when you only treat people as potential sales. The responsibility to build a relationship lies with you and depends on how you choose to use social media. #Quote by Brian Basilico

#33. For many girls, the pressure to be considered "hot" is felt on a nearly continual basis online. The sites with which they most commonly interact encourage them to post images of themselves, and employ the "liking" feature, with which users can judge their appearance and, in effect, rate them. When girls post their pictures on Instagram or Snapchat or Facebook, they know they will be judged for their "hotness," and in a quantifiable way, with numbers of likes. Social media, which gave us selfies, seems to encourage an undue focus on appearance for everyone, but for girls, this focus is combined with a pervasive sexualization of girls in the wider culture, an overarching trend which is already having serious consequences. #Quote by Nancy Jo Sales

#34. I never really paid attention to sales until the second record. #Quote by Daniel Johns

#35. What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for him. His baseline attitude toward other humans wass that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was probably rooted in a belief that hed been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was an objective reality, which all people worth talking to could observe and understand, and that there was no point in arguing about anything that could be so observed and so understood. #Quote by Neal Stephenson

#36. Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up. #Quote by George Carlin

#37. I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing. #Quote by Mac Barnett

#38. But that's the thing: when you swear to take someone's side no matter what, sometimes you have to go to war for them. #Quote by Leila Sales

#39. What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#40. Make sickness itself a prayer. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#41. 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! #Quote by Honeya

#42. I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had all the information the prospect wanted, including pricing and discount options. Now 90 percent of it has swung to marketing. It's self-service and you need to be very, very helpful to see to the top of the funnel. The game has changed a lot. #Quote by Brian Halligan

#43. Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits. #Quote by John Kao

#44. B National Pride - Is located on top of the head, under the hair, and for this and other reasons may be difficult to detect.
C Mouth - Is used for the intake of food and drink, and, to some extent, for talking. (See: Norwegian Conversations (Do they occur?)).
G Craving for Freedom - Located in the heart.
H Right Hand - Open, ready to accept friendship and/or sales contracts. #Quote by Odd Borretzen

#45. I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work." #Quote by Wayne Dyer

#46. We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales ... Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries. #Quote by Eric Schmidt

#47. Love your enemies, they are prospects. #Quote by Toba Beta

#48. Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#49. You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies. #Quote by John Lasseter

#50. Marketing without sales is dead. #Quote by Richie Norton

#51. Dark, was banned by the Irish state censor for obscenity. The story was set, as so much of McGahern's later fiction would be, in isolated rural Ireland and dealt with the bleak consequences of parental and clerical child abuse. On the instructions of the Archbishop of Dublin, McGahern was sacked from his job as a primary school teacher. He later left the country. Despite these apparent setbacks, McGahern's literary friends reassured him that all this was a wonderful opportunity in terms of publicity and sales. Remember Joyce and Beckett being forced overseas? This was Irish literary history repeating itself, and preparations were soon being made to mount a campaign against the anachronistic and widely derided censorship laws with McGahern as the figurehead.
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McGahern agreed that the situation was indeed absurd, and says that even as an adolescent reader he had nothing but contempt for the censorship board. #Quote by John McGahern

#52. I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl. #Quote by Patti Stanger

#53. Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either. #Quote by Edan Lepucki

#54. Most of you will have heard the maxim "correlation does not imply causation." Just because two variables have a statistical relationship with each other does not mean that one is responsible for the other. For instance, ice cream sales and forest fires are correlated because both occur more often in the summer heat. But there is no causation; you don't light a patch of the Montana brush on fire when you buy a pint of Haagan-Dazs. #Quote by Nate Silver

#55. It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. #Quote by Nicholas Johnson

#56. You will be able to say you have done your best at selling when you satisfy your customers' needs on a steady and consistent basis. As a professional salesperson, you can't satisfy those needs unless you know what they are and appreciate the person who has them #Quote by Jack Carew

#57. The person with the most contacts does not win a prize. Number of friends, likes or fans is only measured by those who want to boast of more contacts. But a contact alone is worth nothing. The real prize comes to those who create the most interactions with the contacts they already have. These interactions sometimes gain them additional followers, usually lead to more interpersonal interactions and will ultimately bring in sales. #Quote by Brian Basilico

#58. Your business is always changing- your process needs to change too. #Quote by Matthew Pollard

#59. I feel sometimes like ... there are all these rules. Just to be a person #Quote by Leila Sales

#60. If all you did to improve your commercial presence was to train your sales people on the importance of influencers ... how much more effective could they be? #Quote by Sandy Carter

#61. Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out. #Quote by Steve Jobs

#62. Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on. #Quote by Don Cooper

#63. In The Pale King, David Foster Wallace has his narrator remark that "it was a little bit like a for-profit company, my family, in that you were pretty much only as good as your last sales quarter. #Quote by William Deresiewicz

#64. Honestly, Elise, sometimes it's like you don't even go to this school.' 'Well, that is the goal,' I said. #Quote by Leila Sales

#65. Like acting, sales works best when hidden. #Quote by Peter Thiel

#66. The essential criterion for running a bookstore is less "Do you like books?" than "Do you like people?" Ironically, we find that having unlimited access to more reading material than we ever could have imagined means we read less. Chuck and Dee Robinson own Village Books [...]He once said in an interview with business writer Rober Spector, "If you're opening a bookstore because you love reading books, then become a night watchman because you'll be able to read more books that way." He was right. It's amazing how just the sight of so much intellectual fodder quells the appetite, let alone how little time remains to read once the shelves have been straightened, the day's swap credits assessed and put away, and the sales taxes tallied. #Quote by Wendy Welch

#67. If low price is the only basis of competition with rival products, similarly produced, there ensues a cut-throat competition which can end only by taking all the profit and incentive out of the industry. The logical way out of this dilemma is for the manufacturer to develop some sales appeal other than mere cheapness, to give the product, in the public mind, some other attraction, some idea that will modify the product slightly, some element of originality that will distinguish it from products in the same line. Thus, #Quote by Edward L. Bernays

#68. Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides expressing their condescension toward him in particular, that criticism also reflected a common attitude that fact-gathering, not theory, was the proper business of all naturalists. #Quote by David Quammen

#69. I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation. #Quote by Rose George

#70. Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. #Quote by Ben Horowitz

#71. Trying to copy extroverts is a recipe for failure. To achieve success, introverts must embrace their own unique and powerful abilities. #Quote by Matthew Pollard

#72. Never does our good God leave us save to hold us better; never does He let go of us save to keep us better; never does He wrestle with us save to give Himself up to us and to bless us. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#73. After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance. #Quote by Austin Ligon

#74. Trust: it's the basis of everything else. #Quote by Matthew Pollard

#75. With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization. #Quote by David Duffield

#76. Falconet replied: "I should say not, #Quote by Ian Sales

#77. Although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales. #Quote by Tanya Huff

#78. The traditional selling models, methods, and techniques that most of us have been trained to use work best in small sales. For now, let me define small as a sale which can normally be completed in a single call and which involves a low dollar value. Unfortunately, these tried-and-true low-value sales techniques, most of them dating from the 1920s, don't work today. #Quote by Neil Rackham

#79. Finally, at every opportunity you have to move someone - from traditional sales, like convincing a prospect to buy a new computer system, to non-sales selling, like persuading your daughter to do her homework - be sure you can answer the two questions at the core of genuine service. If the person you're selling to agrees to buy, will his or her life improve? When your interaction is over, will the world be a better place than when you began? If the answer to either of these questions is no, you're doing something wrong. #Quote by Daniel H. Pink

#80. Your brand is a combination of a customer's experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute to
your company's brand reputation. #Quote by Elaine Fogel

#81. Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#82. The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales executives tucked into their platters of fruits de mer, but was only fifty yards deep. For a fortnight the Croisette and its grand hotels willingly became a facade, the largest stage set in the world. Without realizing it, the crowds under the palm trees were extras recruited to play their traditional roles. As they cheered and hooted, they were far more confident than the film actors on display, who seemed ill at ease when they stepped from their limos, like celebrity criminals ferried to a mass trial by jury at the Palais, a full-scale cultural Nuremberg furnished with film clips of the atrocities they had helped to commit. #Quote by J.G. Ballard

#83. Isn't that funny, to think that the people who have lived in your daydreams for the past two weeks, the people whom you've drawn in your chemistry notebook, to think that those people might not even know who you are? #Quote by Leila Sales

#84. On second thought, this might not be spurious. Computer science doctorates vs. Comic book sales #Quote by Tyler Vigen

#85. This has been a record breaking month for book sales for Mikazuki Publishing House. The moon can only stay hidden behind the cloud for so long. Eventually the cloud moves away and the moon can light up the darkness with its magnificence. #Quote by Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#86. Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours. #Quote by Marilyn Ferguson

#87. The next time some desperate parents beg me to take care of their children," I raged, sawing at my slice of chicken breast, "I will ask them for a full accounting of all the boxes of cereal in their pantry. And if they don't have at least three types of sugary cereal, then I will say no. No, I will not babysit for your whiny children in your cereal-deprived sham of a household. #Quote by Leila Sales

#88. The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. #Quote by Alan Keyes

#89. Some salesmen think that selling is like eating - to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook - he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry. #Quote by George Horace Lorimer

#90. Sales is all about the relationship; rules are similar: Don't assume, ask. Be open to discussion. Be Always ready with the details, Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Listen more - understand their feelings. #Quote by Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

#91. Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? #Quote by Alva Myrdal

#92. I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives? #Quote by Stanley Victor Paskavich

#93. We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity aside and forces us to confront that loneliness and the uncertainty with which human beings, in the end, live and die. #Quote by Boria Sax

#94. I'll pretend to be anyone or anything other than myself, but the problem is that no one is ever fooled. #Quote by Leila Sales

#95. Whenever you feel short or need of something, give what you want first, and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love or friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may do, but it has always worked for me. I trust that the principle of prosperity is true, and I give what I want. I want money, so I give money, and it comes back in multiples. I want sales, so I help someone else sell something, so sales come to me. I want contacts, and I help someone else get contacts. Like magic, contacts come to me. I heard a saying years ago that went: god does not need to receive, but humans need to give. My rich dad would often say: poor people are more greedy than rich people. He would explain that if a person is rich, that person is providing something that other people wanted...whenever I think people aren't smiling at me, I simply began smiling and saying hello. Like magic, the next thing I know: I'm surrounded by smiling people. It is true that you world is only a mirror of you. So that's why I say, teach and you shall receive. #Quote by Robert T. Kiyosaki

#96. When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#97. Sales is an experiment - there's no right or wrong, just varying degrees of effectiveness. Our job is to constantly seek ways we can increase our effectiveness. #Quote by Jill Konrath

#98. The many troubles in your household will tend to your edification, if you strive to bear them all in gentleness, patience, and kindness. Keep this ever before you, and remember constantly that God's loving eyes are upon you amid all these little worries and vexations, watching whether you take them as He would desire. Offer up all such occasions to Him, and if sometimes you are put out, and give way to impatience, do not be discouraged, but make haste to regain your lost composure. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#99. Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they're actually interested. #Quote by Emmett Shear

#100. At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not. #Quote by Guy Kawasaki

#101. The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state. #Quote by Craig Benson

#102. It's a completely independent atelier and company. We develop the prototypes here. There's a pattern maker, a sample maker, a commercial team, a head of sales, an in-house production team. That's the price of independence. And in the studio I work closely with Sarah-Linh on the collection, and Nao takes care of development. #Quote by Christophe Lemaitre

#103. I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute. #Quote by Nancy Jo Sales

#104. To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people! #Quote by Jim Rohn

#105. Feed Hansel and Gretel one breadcrumb at a time. Don't present the witch and the oven in one go. #Quote by Trevor Carss

#106. 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. #Quote by Michelle Moore

#107. While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and development, advertising sales, and mobile platform development. #Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

#108. Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#109. What we offer needs to be a clear and obvious fit for our customers. We need to help others envision exactly what they're buying - in concrete terms. #Quote by Steve Woodruff

#110. If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business…don't overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth. #Quote by Richie Norton

#111. The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship. Shipping means hitting the publish button on your blog, showing a presentation to the sales team, answering the phone, selling the muffins, sending out your references. Shipping is the collision between your work and the outside world. #Quote by Seth Godin

#112. Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them chopped me right in half, but none of them were right. #Quote by Leila Sales

#113. It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#114. When you give up in your mind, your mind gives up on you. Once this happens, the rest is downhill. #Quote by Timi Nadela

#115. Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales. #Quote by David Remnick

#116. Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora ... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales. #Quote by Malcolm D. Lee

#117. but how to establish a process by which a sales team of modest size can move the product to a wide audience. #Quote by Peter Thiel

#118. even if we laid off 100 percent of the employees, the infrastructure costs would still kill us without a sharper sales ramp. #Quote by Ben Horowitz

#119. 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. #Quote by Diane Helbig

#120. If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance. #Quote by Dave Douglas

#121. Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity. #Quote by Dane Brookes

#122. I didn't know. I feel sometimes like ... there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? You're supposed to carry a shoulder bag, not a backpack. You're supposed to wear headbands, or you're not supposed to wear headbands. It's okay to describe yourself as likeable, but it's not okay to describe yourself as eloquent. You can sit in the front of the school bus, but you can't sit in the middle. You're not supposed to be with a boy, even when he wants you to. I didn't know that. There are so many rules, and they don't make any sense, and I just can't learn them all #Quote by Leila Sales

#123. No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment. #Quote by Karl-Johan Persson

#124. Your ability to build a successful sales career is in direct proportion to the quality and quantity of service you render on a daily basis. #Quote by Michelle Moore

#125. I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better. #Quote by Sara Sheridan

#126. Overall, the cost to the Forest Service to prepare and administer the timer sales, to oversee the construction of the roads, to mitigate (in usually small ineffective ways) the damage to the landscape far outweighs any fiscal return. #Quote by Christopher Ketcham

#127. The ultimate success of a product or service is 10 percent product quality and 90 percent sales. Nine #Quote by Darren Hardy

#128. When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#129. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product. #Quote by Sam Altman

#130. I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow. #Quote by William Zinsser

#131. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales. #Quote by Val McDermid

#132. Functions of advertising To differentiate the product from their competitors To communicate product information To urge product used To expand the product distribution Too increase brand preference and loyalty To reduce overall sales cost Creates new demands #Quote by Prashant Faldu

#133. Here's the truth, simply stated ... bookstores are suffering from a serious crisis of falling sales. Don't believe a single zero of all those editions claimed to be 100,000! 40,000! ... even 400 copies! just for the suckers! Alack! ... Alas! ... only love and romance ... and even then! ... manage to keep selling ... and a few murder mysteries ... #Quote by Louis Ferdinand Celine

#134. Thanks to relentless media exposure and little-understood financing and sales practices, not to mention the perception of autos as important status indicators, most people replace their cars on a regular basis. #Quote by Ian Lamont

#135. Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans. #Quote by Peter Thiel

#136. Forget about the business outlook ... be on the outlook for business. #Quote by Paul J. Meyer

#137. A plank is a luxury to a drowning person. It becomes the best option to reach the shore, but it's hardly noticed from the shore; sales leads are like planks we don't know the use till we have nothing to use, we miss many small ones while targeting the big ones, remember! It takes many planks to build a boat. #Quote by Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

#138. You didn't succeed. Well, what of that? There's nothing to prove, you know, and the revolution's not a question of virtue but of effectiveness. There is no heaven. There's work to be done, that's all. And you must do what you're cut out for; all the better if it comes easy to you. The best work is not the work that takes the most sacrifice. It's the work in which you can best succeed. #Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

#139. Have you hugged your customers lately? Have you told 'em you care? Have you reached out boldly and said 'We know you're there? #Quote by Tom Reilly

#140. For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake. #Quote by Jennifer Lee

#141. When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance. #Quote by Justin Guarini

#142. What's the best way to ensure your small business makes a profit? Without a doubt, it's to keep your overhead costs low, and maximize your sales per marketing dollar. #Quote by Kevin J. Donaldson

#143. Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs. #Quote by Phyllis Schlafly

#144. Figure 6: Sirius research shows that, of the 70% of leads who are disqualified by sales, 80% end up buying eventually, often from a competitor. DATA #Quote by Steven Woods

#145. Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France? #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#146. There are many who want me to tell them of secret ways of becoming perfect and I can only tell them that the sole secret is a hearty love of God, and the only way of attaining that love is by loving. You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#147. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, not even if your whole world seems upset. If you find that you have wandered away from the shelter of God, lead your heart back to Him quietly and simply. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#148. I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core. #Quote by Anne M. Mulcahy

#149. Selling without targeting is like sailing without a compass. Think before you invest more time in pursuing the lead. #Quote by Timi Nadela

#150. Remembering the why will inspire the how #Quote by Yuri Van Der Sluis

#151. There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months. #Quote by David Brier

#152. His paternal tone irked me no end, and that helped to steel my resolve. I couldn't sell out the the Sixers. #Quote by Ernest Cline

#153. Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night. #Quote by Marsha Blackburn

#154. Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#155. While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company. #Quote by Shawn Amos

#156. When any evil happens to you, apply whatever remedies you can and do this in a way agreeable to God, since to do otherwise is to tempt God. Having done this, wait with resignation for the results it may please God to send. If it is his will that the remedies overcome the evil, then humbly return him thanks. If it is his will that the evils overcome the remedies, then bless him with patience. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#157. How could anyone resist. A gypsy, an ex-forest ranger and a couple of retro sales gals." He glanced around at the ice cream sorbet colors of Layla's trailer. "I can imagine us all rolling up to a crime scene in this. #Quote by Marg McAlister

#158. If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales terrifies you, get a job at a dept. store and start there. Or get a job with a company like Xerox that requires that you go around to businesses and knock on doors. As your courage increases, you may want to try a company in network marketing or direct sales that is willing to train you. #Quote by Robert Kiyosaki

#159. Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines. #Quote by Barbara Walters

#160. In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales. #Quote by Padgett Powell

#161. Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth. #Quote by Chris Murray

#162. No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales. #Quote by Calvin Klein

#163. Cold calling is not dead. To grow your business, you have to call people you don't know and don't know you #Quote by Timi Nadela

#164. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. #Quote by Heinrich Heine

#165. I would like to express how I regard salespeople in general. I consider they embody a unified and diverse aggregate of the most able individuals in society and its workplace. In any economy, they are among the most valuable to its continued existence. They alone move the economy of a nation. #Quote by Michael Delaware

#166. They promise us once-in-a-lifetime bargains in the orgies of consumerism that are Black Friday and Cyber Monday. More likely, we end up with precious little, vacant souls and an ever-decreasing appreciation of humanity. #Quote by Stewart Stafford

#167. Listen first, then sell. #Quote by Timi Nadela

#168. Buying market share by hiring your competitors' salespeople does nothing good for your reputation in the industry. Maybe you don't care when you're young and brash, but eventually you learn that reputation is a crucial business asset, worth much more over the long run than a few extra sales. #Quote by Norm Brodsky

#169. People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking. #Quote by Roy H. Williams

#170. And that's what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong. #Quote by Ryan Holiday

#171. As for indie writers, a lot of them don't realize that they're in the hurry-up-and-wait business, not the wait-and-hurry-up business. They work really, really, really hard at goosing the first-month sales, and then getting disappointed when those sales either go down or never happen in the first place. #Quote by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

#172. In 1953, at the beginning of the Eisenhower era and the glory years of the auto industry, Hudson's had done $153 million in retail sales; in 1981 the downtown Hudson's had done only $44 million - a figure, if adjusted for inflation, about 6 percent of the 1953 total. #Quote by David Halberstam

#173. Love means sometimes sacrificing the things you want in order to make somebody else happy. It means being there for them, even when maybe you don't feel like it, because they need you. #Quote by Leila Sales

#174. Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. #Quote by Daniel Hannan

#175. Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#176. Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. #Quote by Chris Murray

#177. Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. #Quote by Stephen Hawking

#178. Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#179. Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call. #Quote by Brian Tracy

#180. The greater the meaning behind your business, the harder it becomes to communicate it to the world. #Quote by Gregory V. Diehl

#181. The popular music wasn't interesting-bad, it was bad-bad. Auto-Tuned vocalists who couldn't really sing; offensively simplistic instrumentation; grating melodies. Like they thought we were stupid. #Quote by Leila Sales

#182. I have always loved westerns ... supernatural westerns in particular. One of my first professional short story sales was a horror/western story. It wasn't so great, though, so I'm glad the magazine folded before it saw print. #Quote by Cullen Bunn

#183. Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. #Quote by Chris Chocola

#184. So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that. #Quote by Josh Silver

#185. Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels ... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today. #Quote by Jill Konrath

#186. The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now it gets into what specifically you have to give. #Quote by Eric Lewis

#187. I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one! #Quote by P.N. Elrod

#188. Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.' #Quote by Alex Berenson

#189. Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself ... do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#190. As I rang the buzzer to his apartment building, I imagined him, maybe with a bunch of his friends, hiding behind a parked car, watching me, laughing, and saying, "Oh my God, I can't believe she actually showed up. Like she believed I was serious! #Quote by Leila Sales

#191. Mrs. B's story is well-known but worth telling again. She came to the United States 77 years ago, unable to speak English and devoid of formal schooling. In 1937, she founded the Nebraska Furniture Mart with $500. Last year the store had sales of $200 million, a larger amount by far than that recorded by any other home furnishings store in the United States. Our part in all of this began ten years ago when Mrs. B sold control of the business to Berkshire Hathaway, a deal we completed without obtaining audited financial statements, checking real estate records, or getting any warranties. In short, her word was good enough for us. Naturally, I was delighted to attend Mrs. B's birthday party. After all, she's promised to attend my 100th. #Quote by Warren Buffett

#192. French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts. #Quote by Patricia Hampl

#193. Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#194. Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#195. To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment. #Quote by Ben Horowitz

#196. As I sat alone at my desk in the dark, I thought about suicide. Sometimes I did that, thought about suicide, though not in an active way - it was more like pulling a lucky stone out of your back pocket. It was a comforting thing to have with you, so you could rub your fingers over it, reassure yourself that it was there if you needed it. I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood and the hysterical parents and the guilt, any of it. But sometimes I liked the idea of simply not having to be here anymore, not having to deal with my life. As if death could be just an extended vacation.
But now what I thought about suicide was this: If I died tonight, everyone would believe this journal was true.
Like Amelia, Chava, and Sally, everyone would forever believe that I had written that diary. Everyone would believe they knew how I "really felt." And how dare they? #Quote by Leila Sales

#197. Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system. #Quote by James Traficant

#198. The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife. #Quote by Saint Francis De Sales

#199. Have contempt for contempt. #Quote by Francis De Sales

#200. According to Gallup, church attendance hovered around 39 percent in the 1930s and 1940s.7 It increased in the 1950s, when Dwight D. Eisenhower encouraged Americans everywhere to go to services. This was the sales pitch: America was now at war with communism, which was perpetuated by atheism. Americans could differentiate themselves from the godless hordes by exercising their freedom of religion. The call was taken up by religious leaders such as Billy Graham, and soon going to church was more than just something for the religious, it was part of being a good American. #Quote by Lyz Lenz