Business Success Quotes

So you can speak, can you? Well, that’s going to stand you out from the rest of the crowd, isn’t it? No. Sorry, my boy. The ability to speak does not a salesman make

No, I’m afraid your overconfidence, as with most young men who dream of becoming successful, can quite quickly become the Achilles’ heel of your continued mediocrity

Did you sell to them or did you simply facilitate their buying from you, hmm? Very different scenarios, my boy, very different indeed.

You can’t know what you don’t know

Customers do not want a lecture from you and they certainly don’t want some juvenile in a bad suit forcing his wares upon them

Now you learn about the greatest tool available to any salesman. I’m going to give you an introduction into something that will help customers recognise the value of your offer all by themselves.

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.

I am aware that it can be easily missed, but once you have the ability to uncover and clarify real needs – the things that really matter - you can discuss in detail how you meet each and every one

That’s what marks out the successful from the nearly-rans. Focusing on what makes people itch rather than continuously presenting an entire catalogue of scratches.

It’s not how I view being a salesman. It’s how I live being a salesman.

success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

Your mission or purpose is like a magnet that keeps you moving is a well established direction

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

Innovative ideas are the golden wealth of a growing business

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 who help people with the same enthusiasm shown by a small child describing the best Christmas present EVER

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.

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.

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

I can’t and won’t promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople – they simply don’t exist.

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.

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.

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

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

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

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before – to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

Salespeople need to “Earn the right” to become suppliers more than they ever did before.

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

Once you believe that you can do something, there is not a single person in the universe who can convince you otherwise.

Market rewards you as per your perception.

You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

You are in control of your priorities – you can erase old priorities and define new priorities at will.

Chase after money and the stuggering race will never end but reach out for successful ideas and the sources of money will chase after you to fill your pockets.

Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan, flourish, and always remember why you started.

Burning bridges is much easier than making them and bridges take you places!

Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one.

When we are right, we earn. When we are wrong, we learn.

Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.

There Are No Secrets of Success, It Is The Result of Preparation, Hard Work And Learning From Failures...

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

Always consider who you’re learning from. Don’t listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.

I delegate, therefore I am.