Quotessence
Home / Topics / Sales Effectiveness Quotes

Sales Effectiveness Quotes

Browse 144 quotes about Sales Effectiveness.

Sales Effectiveness Quotes

“When your pipeline is full – with business coming out of your ears – the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you’ll already be at capacity”

“We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.”

“Remind yourself that successful salespeople love their product and their company, and they love to sell and prospect. If you don’t have that kind of love on most days and most of every day, then it is time to make a change. Or better yet, re-sign on the dotted line and start over. Doing the same things over and over again and expecting a magic carpet ride across the world is pitiful thinking and the kind of reasoning that will keep you poor with a capital “P”.”

“Get up in the morning on a mission to save prospective clients from the shabby, ill-fitting, overpriced and worthless alternatives that those charlatans - who are your competition - are trying to get away with flogging them.”

“Explain the value and justify the cost - People don’t mind paying; they just don’t like to overpay.”

“Don’t tell me you’re passionate about your job – show me that you’re passionate about helping people like me.”

“We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.”

“The salesperson you’d ideally like to be and the salesperson you’d like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn’t they?”

“Salespeople who think that it’s all about price aren’t required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.”

“Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don’t want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.”

“If what you sell doesn’t help me then why are you knocking on my door?”

“The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?”

“Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.”

“True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.”

“Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.”

“Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.”

“Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.”

“Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.”

“Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.”

“Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.”

“Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.”

“Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.”

“Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.”

“Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.”

“Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.”

“When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.”

“When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.”

“Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.”

“This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.”

“Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?”

“Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?”

“The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.”

“The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.”

“To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.”

“Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.”

“Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.”

“Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.”

“Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.”

“Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.”

“A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.”

“What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting. What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.”

“Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.”

“You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.”

“The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.”

“When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.”