Sales Quotes - page 6

... I pounded the doors at the local IBM sales office until a salesman took pity on me. After we chatted for a while, he handed me a Fortran [manual]. I'm sure he gave it to me thinking, "I'll never hear from this kid again." I returned the following week saying, "This is really cool. I've read the whole thing and have written a small program. Where can I find a computer?" The fellow, to my delight, found me programming time on an IBM 1130 on weekends and late-evening hours. That was my first programming experience, and I must thank that anonymous IBM salesman for launching my career. Thank you, IBM. (Grady Booch)
I never really paid attention to sales until the second record. View quote
Daniel Johns
Russia's a small country. It's really poor. It has nothing other than oil and weapons sales. View quote
Malcolm Nance
When I was 23, I was quite possibly the worst real estate agent in New York. I was working for my mother's agency in Chappaqua, and no one was buying houses. In eight months, I made zero sales. I rented one apartment. View quote
Marc Randolph
Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people. View quote
Martin Seligman
If you're in business and you make a sales call and that lead doesn't buy from you, you don't sit there all day mourning the loss of that lead. You go out there and make 10 more sales calls! View quote
Matthew Hussey
Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day. View quote
Cindy Crawford
I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal. View quote
Stephan Pastis
Value innovation is created in the region where a company's actions favorably affect both its cost structure and its value proposition to buyers. Cost saving are made by eliminating and reducing the factors an industry competes on. Buyer value is lifted by raising and creating elements the industry has never offered. Over time, costs are reduced further as scale economics kick in due to the high sales volumes that superior value generates. View quote
W. Chan Kim
Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. View quote
Adam Ant
The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches. (Brian Solis)
Upfronts are all about ad sales. View quote
Bryan Fuller
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop. View quote
Vanilla Ice
We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? View quote
Alva Myrdal
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.' View quote
Alex Berenson
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter. View quote
Alex Berenson
Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges. (Alex Berenson)
Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales. View quote
Jay Conrad Levinson
My book sales make 'real writers' possible. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service. View quote
Jeffrey Gitomer
Every single person in every single company is either in sales or affects sales. Every single person in every single company is either in service or affects service. View quote
Jeffrey Gitomer