Marketing is not something you do to people, it’s something you do for people. Marketing is the service of helping people make the best possible decision. George Silverman

• sales
• advertising

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word "no" mean to a child? Almost nothing. Jim Rohn

• persistence
• sales

My advice to salesmen is this: pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. Mary Kay Ash

• sales
• people skills

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates

• sales
• business

Selling the customer is serving the customer. When you have a product that helps customers, you owe it to customers to sell it to them. To not offer customers something that can genuinely serve them well is a lack of good service. Larry Winget

• business
• sales

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You serve best when you sell well. Larry Winget

• service
• sales

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People love to be sold and they hate to be hustled. Larry Winget

• sales

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People want to buy from salespeople who are successful. Since we gather information first and primarily by sight and then form our opinions in the same way, it is important to look successful. Larry Winget

• sales
• appearance

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The very top salespeople in any industry don't waste their time going to networking meetings. They take the same amount of time and use it to stay in front of customers. Larry Winget

• sales

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The easiest customer to sell is the customer who is happy with what he just bought from you. Larry Winget

• sales

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Everything that you ever learned of value in the profession of selling, regarding your product or service, or personality, is only helpful to the degree to which it contributes to the building of high quality relationships with customers. Brian Tracy

• business
• sales

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems. Stephen Covey

• sales

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I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. Bo Bennett

• sales

Samson killed a thousand men with the jaw bone of an ass. That many sales are killed every day with the same weapon. Anonymous

• funny
• sales

There's a fine line between good marketing and grand larceny. Scott Adams

• sales

It's not a 'no' until they call security. Anonymous

• sales

When you want something, start with the direct approach. That is, go straight to the source and ask for what you want. You will be surprised at how often you get it. John T. Reed

• candor
• sales

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Give your customers a quality product or service and a good value and they will recommend you to others and come back for more. Tricking your customers to buy is neither spiritually rewarding nor a formula for enduring success. John T. Reed

• business
• sales

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In the selling business, there's a lack of integrity. My father had the spirit and integrity of a scientist, but he was a salesman. I remember asking him the question "How can a man of integrity be a salesman?" He said to me, "Frankly, many salesmen in the business are not straightforward—they think it’s a better way to sell. But I've tried being straightforward, and I find it has its advantages. In fact, I wouldn't do it any other way. If the customer thinks at all, he'll realize he has had some bad experience with another salesman, but hasn't had that kind of experience with you. So in the end, several customers will stay with you for a long time and appreciate it." Richard Feynman

• sales

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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. John Ruskin

• business
• sales
• thrift

It is the making of a sale that is the most basic single activity of any business. Without sales, survival is impossible. It is the making of repeat sales to satisfied customers that is the first benchmark of success. Philip Fisher

• business
• sales