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

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

“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

“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...

“There is only one way to make money: sell something. You're either selling your time or a product. The secret? Productize your time. That's freedom.”
― Richie Norton

“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

“Those who want to sell their portion of the earth would not find enough motivation to build it.”
― Seun Ayilara

“And what are the realities of modern life? Well, the chief one is an everlasting, frantic struggle to sell things. With most people it takes the form of selling themselves–that’s to say, getting a job and keeping it.”
― George Orwell, Coming up for Air

“Fail to engage the AI system, and you may never make the shortlist. Fail to persuade the human committee, and you won’t close the deal.”
― Ian Michiels, The Validation Economy: In the Age of AI, B2B Marketers Stay Indispensable by Doing What AI Can't

“Serve beyond the sale—earn trust with genuine care, and customers will evolve into lifelong advocates.”
― Farshad Asl

“When you raise the prices of your goods and services, be quick to also raise the quality of your goods and services.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Over time, a real product with a slower sales rate will outsell the phoney one, regardless of how quickly the false one sells.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Give your business a future by getting your products and services featured.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“If you want to get the best career you can possibly get, you would want to make sure that it complies with the many principles of selling.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Indeed, by reminding yourself that your offerings might be life-changing, you may begin to see selling from being annoying to being a duty: it’s a greatest thing you can do to show that you are a valuable human, and it’s a greatest thing you can do to lift people out of poverty.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“As you continue to offer more things to your fellow humans, you may realize that selling is not a sin but a means for fostering prosperity.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond

“Sales isn’t about pushing; it’s about guiding. Unlock a system that makes every deal feel like a story with a winning ending.”
― Jeff Watters

“Better doesn't mean it's good”
― Yuri van der Sluis