50 of the Best Motivational Sales Quotes to Get You All Fired Up
Hey, no one said sales would be easy, right? Especially on those days when all you seem to get is hang ups, it can be hard to keep the sales motivation going. Everyone needs motivation — and these motivational sales quotes are some of the best to keep you fired up and ready to close. We’re quoting everyone from the experts to our favorite sales movies — for the 50 best sales quotes to help get you back in the game.
50 Top Motivational Sales Quotes
“There is no such thing as a no sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the clients some stock or he sells you on a reason why he can’t. Either way, a sale is made. The only question is, “who’s gonna close?” You or him. And be relentless.”
-Ben Affleck, Boiler Room
Long slow whistle. Talk about salesman motivational quotes! In terms of inspirational sales quotes or sales quotes that should motivate the heck out of you — this is it.
“The hard is what makes it great.”
-Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own
“You are the product. You feeling something. That’s what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can’t do what we do and they hate us for it.”
-Don Draper, Mad Men
Need sales motivation? There’s no one possibly more inspiring than Don Draper when it comes to upping your sales game.
“I focus on one thing and one thing only — that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.”
- Kobe Bryant
“Most people think ‘selling’ is the same as ‘talking’. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job.”
-Roy Bartell
True that, Roy. Some of the best sales quotes speak to just this — you need to listen just as much — if not more than you speak.
“Timid salesmen have skinny kids.”
- Zig Ziglar
“The key to this business is personal relationships.”
- Jerry Maguire
“A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing.”
- Blake (Alec Baldwin), Glengarry Glen Ross
On oldie of a sales quote, but a goodie. Sales motivation quotes don’t get much better than this, folks!
“Either run the day or the day runs you.”
There’s no better sales motivation then this, folks. We are the masters of our own destiny. We decide how our day will go. Prospect not buying? Read a few of these sales quotes and you’ll be fired up and ready to head back to the trenches.
“Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they’re not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.”
- Jordan Belfort
Your competition is everything else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.
Let’s be real. When it comes to motivational sales quotes, Tony Robbins has got about a million of em’. The ultimate salesman (with a net worth of $600 million dollars, to boot,) Tony knows a thing or two about inspirational sales quotes.
“If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”
-Don Draper, Mad Men
“Success comes from standing out, not fitting in.”
-Don Draper, Mad Men
“I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.”
- Kobe Bryant
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
-Walt Disney
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan
Nothing smells like sales motivation than a quote from Michael Jordan. If anyone knows about defeat, it’s a professional athlete. Think about all those shots they miss. The baskets not scored. The practices they threw. For the ultimate sales quote, just ask a pro athlete.
“This is the time to show them everything. Make sure they remember you.”
-The Hunger Games
- Katherine Barchetti
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.
-Thomas Edison
“Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.”
- Shiv Khera
“Nobody likes to be sold to, but everybody likes to buy.”
- Earl Taylor
“Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”
-Dale Carnegie
Ah, Dale Carnegie. Maybe the most oft quotes sales figure of all time. There’s no better sales quote then well, ANYTHING written by Dale Carnegie. Author of the popular book “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” the lessons of this 1936 book still ring true and are heralded to this day. Listen up folks, because Dale Carnegie’s sales motivation has stood the test of time, (nearly 100 years.)
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
- Coco Chanel
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Originally published at https://www.lusha.com on August 23, 2020.
