Salesmen Quotes

“They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't actually exist while they're working. Workers are just tools who aren't supposed to have feelings or personalities. You don't become human until your shift is over. Until then, we're all just zombies. We're dead to the world: infected people who need to be avoided, unless, of course, someone needs to know where the paintbrushes are located.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

“To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me shoes. To others I am known as Buddy. These are people who dwell in bars and wonder if I’ve got a problem or what it is that I am “looking at.” And to still others, who are in that same bar, standing just off to the side, I am “Get Him!”
― Demetri Martin

“We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

“A real salesman knows how to engage Anyone Anywhere Anytime in a sensible conversation.”
― honeya

“Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.”
― Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly

“However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.”
― Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly

“Is the competition really some mythical beast? No, not really. Knowing how to play your group of salespeople as a team, to overcome the group objective of winning the customers support, is the objective. The opposing team in proper viewpoint is not just the similar competing business to yours. Nor is it the competing franchises of your home office.
No, in order to really be effective in the market place as a surviving business, you must go beyond that philosophy. You must be willing to expand your viewpoint to fully understand who the competition truly is.
Your true competition is simply this: Anywhere that your customer would spend his or her dollars as opposed to spending them at your company or place of business.”
― Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly

“You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.”
― honeya

“Outside the box" is an overused cliche which goes nowhere near far enough. In fact, there are so many politicians and salesmen thinking outside the box these days that I am convinced that all of their boxes are completely empty!”
― Lance Greenfield

“The power of positive thinking will overcome so many things”
― Malcolm Gladwell

“If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my
product or service we’ll have a meaningful conversation about it
and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don’t feel
anything. Nothing at all”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“TeleCaller's (cold calling) job is similar to sniper's, wait patiently for the Right Party Connect/Target and make no mistake.”
― honeya

“Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always.”
― honeya

“A good salesman knows you better than you know yourself. If you are Chinese, they will sell you yield. If you’re European, they will stroke your sense of superiority. If you’re an ambitious manager of an American pension fund, sitting on piles of money but bound by rules and regulations, they will find a kosher way for you to become the big swinging dick you always knew you were. And if you are an American hedge fund — a serious fund, not two guys and a Bloomberg — a smart salesman cuts the bullshit and both of you reach an understanding.”
― Katya G. Cohen, The American Spellbound

“I am not ashamed that I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman, only that I was a *good* vacuum-cleaner salesman.”
― Robert Morley

“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“People buy from people they like and from people who are like them... ;)”
― honeya