Entrepreneurship & Business: Sales Quotes

Discover a concise collection of sales quotes that highlight persuasion, pipeline discipline, and customer value. Curated for entrepreneurs and business teams, these lines emphasize mindset, execution, and measurable results across prospecting, negotiation, and closing. Use them to spark team huddles, guide outreach messages, or refine playbooks. Whether you are building a startup, scaling revenue, or coaching a salesforce, these quotes encourage resilience, ethical selling, continuous learning, and a focus on long-term relationships.

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"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

Napoleon Hill

"Everyone lives by selling something"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

Jim Barksdale

"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer"

Tom Peters, Businessman

Tom Peters

"I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk"

Harry F. Banks, Producer

"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

"Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks"

Edward Koch, Politician

"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

W. Clement Stone

"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, Businesswoman

Mary Kay Ash

"Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"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, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

Henry A. Kissinger

"Excellence always sells"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

Earl Nightingale

"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

Nikita Khrushchev

"It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies"

John Carmack, Scientist

John Carmack

"Either you sell, or you get sold"

Jordan Belfort, Author

Jordan Belfort

"Sell me this pen"

Jordan Belfort, Author

Jordan Belfort

"I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything"

Brian Eno, Musician

Brian Eno

"Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I mean, that's normal. I understand that. I don't quarrel with that"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments"

Harry Seidler, Architect

Harry Seidler

"It's about listening first, then selling"

Erik Qualman, Author

"There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'"

Leo Burnett, Businessman

"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs"

Dorthea Brande, Writer

"If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

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