Selling Quotes

“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point of destructiveness. It is exacerbated by a culture that understandably exploits this mechanic as it's a damn good way to sell Mars bars and Toyotas.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

“As long as you’re trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you’re selling, what you’re really offering is you.” (p.92)”
― Bob Burg and John David Mann, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.”
― Jeffrey Gitomer

“Always set your goals higher than you could ever possibly reach. That way, when you barely fall short, you're still better than everybody else.”
― Carson V. Heady, Birth of a Salesman

“As I walk through, a kind of amazed mantra starts running through my head: There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end...

Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is that you have to offer. Most of us set way too low a price. Put it a little higher than you would normally be inclined to do. The worst that can happen is someone will come along and steal it.”
― John Kremer, 1001 Ways to Market Your Books: For Authors and Publishers, 6th Edition

“Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.”
― Ryan Lilly

“If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards.”
― Michelle Moore, Selling Simplified

“Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We’re all somebody’s prospect; we’re all somebody’s customer.”
― Chris Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction

“We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution.”
― Sonia Marciano

“One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really no bottom to where they'll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it - a bad photocopy of a bad photocopy of what was a shit idea in the first place - the more they'll eat it up with a big fucking spoon, from dawn till dusk, from now until the end of time. It's too good.”
― John Niven, Kill Your Friends

“Think about it: if someone had found a way to manipulate human choice and free will – if someone actually had that kind of power – wouldn’t it be a tad surprising if they then decided to share their secret with the masses in a book for $20? Not to mention how it would be just very slightly unethical.”
― Chris Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction

“Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!”
― Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.”
― Jay Taylor, The Rise Of Majick

“I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.”
― Chris Murray, Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction

“Learn your own pain. embrace it. make it your obsession and understand that pain is life, and life is blood, and blood leads to sales.”
― Nick Oliveri, Her

“When it comes to communication, salespeople are a fascinating bunch to watch because most are under the misguided impression they are being paid to speak. If they truly believed they were being paid to listen, they would all make more money.”
― Rob Ryan Sullivan, A Trek Within: Embracing Unexpected Truths

“Robert Louis Stevenson was right in saying that everybody lives by selling something. Once someone sold me her dreams! I am still holding them, etched in the lines of my right hand and wondering what to do with them. They are too heavy to hold, too precious to let go”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“Budget airlines are notorious for over selling their flights and bumping passengers when too many show up!”
― Steven Magee

“If something truly meets the needs that it claims to meet, it will sell itself. Yet our world is deluged with advertising.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“if you worry about taking care of the customer, you never have to worry about money.”
― Rob Liano

“There is an adage in the marketing industry that says, “Don’t sell the mattress, sell the sleep.” This cleverly and concisely captures the idea of marketing a solution.”
― Jeff Swystun, Why Marketing Works: 7 Time-Tested, Brand-Building Principles

“When presented as a solution, consumers more readily evaluate whether a product or service satisfies what they need or want. They evaluate if it will “fit” and solve something in their life. People hate to be sold, but they expect to be marketed to. So don’t sell the mattress, market the sleep.”
― Jeff Swystun, Why Marketing Works: 7 Time-Tested, Brand-Building Principles

“Possessions deteriorate, become obsolete, or teeter towards irrelevance. We will never remember the features of our third-last smartphone but we will remember how it helped us and what it made us feel. It’s the experience of the item, not the item itself, that we value more.”
― Jeff Swystun, Why Marketing Works: 7 Time-Tested, Brand-Building Principles

“A pre-recorded message, timed to go off just as the crowd was reaching a fever pitch. A way to get them to take that one step further and push them from civility and into madness. Stocks are running out. Stocks are running out. STOCKS ARE RUNNING OUT.”
― Joshua Krook, Black Friday 2050: The powerful psychological thriller set in a terrifying high-tech future

“Those who don’t take marketing seriously, won’t be taken seriously by the market.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“If you don't care about your brand, why should I?”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Profit is a reward for solving problems, not just selling products.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero