101 Sales Quotes That Can Drive Your Sales Team in 2021
Inspirational sales quotes can work wonders toward improving sales motivation. To push your team to succeed day in and day out, sometimes they need a little sales encouragement. These famous quotes offer the right motivation to get your teams excited.
Here are some of the best motivational sales quotes, famous quotes, funny sales quotes and powerful sales quotes to get your team moving.
- “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” — Teddy Roosevelt
- “If you don’t believe in what you’re selling, neither will your prospect.” — Frank Bettger
- “One of the best predictors of ultimate success … isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.” — Daniel H. Pink
- “Sales enablement can’t be reactive. It has to be a full-blown strategy that’s woven into the fabric of the company.” — Roderick Jefferson
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
- “The best salespeople wonder what it would be like to be in the other person’s shoes. They know they can’t play that game unless they continually strive to train themselves in how we as human beings communicate.” — Bob Phibbs
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.” — Ralph Marston
- “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything.“ — John Wooden
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
- “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
- “What you focus on is what you get.” — Bob Burg
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton
- “How you sell is more important than what you sell.” — Andy Paul
- “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on Discipline.” — Jocko Willink
- Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” — Jim Cathcart
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan
- “The one thing you’re putting off or dreading? That’s your brain telling you it’s the thing you need to do most and next. Get it done. Stop dreading. Do.“ — Nancy Nardin
- “It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching and closing. It is about listening, diagnosing and prescribing.” — Mark Roberge
- “If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.” — Roy T. Bennett
- “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” — Bruce Lee
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
- “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” — Pablo Picasso
- “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” — Brian Tracy
- “Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.” — Jeffrey Gitomer
- “Dream big! There are no limitations to how good you can become or how high you can rise except the limits you put on yourself.” — Brian Tracy
- “Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort. It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.” — Angela Duckworth
- “True productivity comes from allowing yourself to make mistakes. Do so, and you’ll succeed more often than any ten perfectionists.” — Laura Stack
- “To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship.” — Patricia Fripp
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson
- “Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn
- “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” — Bob Hooey
- “The story is the heart of the sale.” — Matthew Pollard
- “Either run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
- Great sellers go into a meeting with multiple next-steps; this allows them to proactively respond if a plan does not unfold as planned.” — Tibor Shanto
- “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” — Og Mandino
- “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” — Jim Cathcart
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
- “Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.” — Jeffrey Gitomer
- “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” — Thomas Jefferson
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins
- “There is always room at the top.” — Daniel Webster
- “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” — Yogi Berra
- “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” — Mark Hunter
- “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Napoleon Hill
- “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” — Vince Lombardi
- “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” — Christopher Morley
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” — Sheryl Sandberg
- “Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.” — Zig Ziglar
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford
- “Trying is winning in the moment.” — Dan Waldschmidt
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison
- “We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me or get out of my way.” — George S. Patton
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
- “Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” — Amelia Earhart
- “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” — Lucille Ball
- “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” — Estée Lauder
- “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins.” — Edith Wharton
- “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” — Don Zimmer
- “Great things are done by a series of small things done together.” — Vincent van Gogh
- “What we dwell on is who we become.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “There is little success where there is little laughter.” — Andrew Carnegie
- “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine
- “The major difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.” — Grant Cardone
- “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” — Brian Tracy
- “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Before LinkedIn and other social networks, in the sales world, ABC stood for Always Be Closing. Now it means Always Be Connecting.” — Jill Rowley
- “High expectations are the key to everything.” — Sam Walton
- “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein
- “It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.” — Warren Buffett
- “What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.” — Jill Konrath
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
- “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” — Wayne Dyer
- “Lean in, speak out, have a voice in your organization, and never use the word ‘sorry.'” — Trish Bertuzzi
- “Fortune favors the bold.” — Virgil
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller
- “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” — Joe Namath
- “Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln
- “Fall down seven times and stand up eight.” — Proverb
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightengale
- “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” — Norman Ralph Augustine
- “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” — John Madden
- “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John R. Wooden
- “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn
- “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Refuse to attach a negative meaning to the word ‘no.’ View it as feedback. ‘No’ tells you to change your approach, create more value or try again later.” — Anthony Iannarino
- “Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find it was in vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” — T.E. Lawrence
- “Willpower is a finite resource in every person’s day — if a work environment contains elements that further promote distraction, rep productivity could be drained even faster.” — Peter Zink
- “The greatest only become the greatest because they are willing to expose themselves to people who can help them become better. Your goal is to find those around who can and will do just that for you.” — Mark Hunter
- “I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. My Nation expects me to be physically and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.” — U.S. Navy SEALs credo
- “The focus from years of negative conditioning is to look at weaknesses or talents ranked lower instead of focusing on those strengths or talents ranked higher. To increase sales leadership we must begin with knowing one’s talents not one’s weaknesses.” — Leanne Hoagland-Smith
- “Sales enablement can’t be reactive. It has to be a full-blown strategy that’s woven into the fabric of the company.” — Roderick Jefferson
- “Having the aspiration to be memorable is easy. The hard part is creating a crisp message you want others to articulate when you’re no longer in the room.” – Dr. Carmen Simon
- “To be seen as a credible and trusted advisor, every touch you have with a customer should provide added value.” — Sharon Gillenwater
- “You don’t have to be the smartest person in the room and you don’t have to rely on luck or getting a better territory. You just have to plan your work and work your plan. It works every time it’s tried.” — Kelly Riggs
- “The top salespeople are usually the ones with the most activity; it doesn’t guarantee you will close more deals, but if you have no activity, you won’t be closing any deals.” — Colleen Honan
- “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — William Shakespeare
Attach at least one of these quotes with each email you send to your sales reps for daily sales motivation. You could do a sales quote of the day or something similar to keep up interest in them. Print them out and hang them up around the office for continuous morale boosts whenever your team needs it.
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