Top 10 Motivational Sales Leadership Quotes
Sales people like punchy stories, analogies and quotes because they are action-orientated, quick–minded and visually stimulated individuals. As such, inspirational quotes and stories help them to form a mental picture that stays with them and motivates them throughout the working day.
In this post we present our Top 10 Motivational Sales Leadership quotes that you might find useful to help guide your sales force towards higher value sales.
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the United States of America.
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”
Tom Hanks
2x Academy Award Winner.
“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”
Jerry Rice
NFL Hall of Famer.
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
Zig Ziglar
American author, sales person and motivational speaker.
“Being defeated is only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
Marilyn von Savant
American columnist, author and playwright.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky
Ice Hockey Hall of Famer
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister (1940-45 and 1951-55).
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Civil Rights leader.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
American poet and Civil Rights activist.
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States of America.
11. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Maya Angelou
12. “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
Steve Jobs
13. “Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
Arnold H. Glasgow
14. “Stop selling, start helping.”
Zig Ziglar
15. “Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up.”
Chinese Proverb
16. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
17. “A man’s position should be judged not so much by the position he has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
Booker T. Washington
18. “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
Ferdinand Foch
19. “Everyone lives by selling something.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
20. “A customer is the most important visitor on our premises; he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.”
Mahatma Gandhi
My thanks go out to the contributions from fellow members of the Sales & Marketing VP’s group on Linkedin who contributed some of these quotes to a discussion I started a couple of weeks ago.
Please feel free to comment and leave your own favourite motivational sales leadership quotes and check back soon as we regularly update this page.
Written by: Steve Eungblut, Managing Director of Sterling Chase
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