Quotes about Sales

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. Votes: 4

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word "˜no' mean to a child? Almost nothing. Votes: 4

Sales fixes everything. Votes: 3

Sales is the parent of marketing. Votes: 3

Sales bring out the worst in people. Votes: 3

Sales is survival, the best-prepared are most likely to survive. Votes: 3

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition. Votes: 3

Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales. Votes: 3

In Sales, you have to satisfy two people: One, your customer. Two, your Boss. Votes: 3

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes. Votes: 3

Sales and marketing need to be joined at the hip, and aligned around the customer. Votes: 3

Sales professional is a profession deals with people, it's a people business not a selling job. Votes: 3

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales. Votes: 3

Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling. Votes: 3

Sales pays for the company. Employees who don't “get” that are part of the problem. Votes: 3

The difference between Sales and Marketing is that Marketing owns the message and Sales owns the relationship. Votes: 3

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing. Votes: 3

Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they're actually interested. Votes: 3

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice. Votes: 3

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read. Votes: 3

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on. Votes: 3

Sales is an experiment - there's no right or wrong, just varying degrees of effectiveness. Our job is to constantly seek ways we can increase our effectiveness. Votes: 3

Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always. Votes: 3

Sales is the most important aspect of a company, which in turn is about how well you treat your customer and stay ahead of your customer's requirements. Votes: 3

Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools. Votes: 3

I love working with customers. Sales has really influenced everything I do. It has instilled in me the important traits of operating with a sense of urgency and listening to people. Votes: 3

Granola didn't sell very well when it was good for you. Now it has caramel, chocolate, marshmallow, saturated fat and sweeteners with a small amount of oats and grains. Sales picked up. Votes: 3

Americans are driving more in less-efficient vehicles. Sales of sports utility vehicles and pickup trucks have been amazingly strong considering the recession, and low pump prices are keeping people on the roads Votes: 3

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of your competition. That doesn't mean being salesperson oriented, just sales oriented: winning deals, smelling the blood and going in for the kill. Votes: 3

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff. Votes: 3

Sales teams use social media to generate leads and track clients as they move through the sales funnel. Operations and distribution teams forecast supply chains, while research and development squads brainstorm product ideas. Votes: 3

Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales... Votes: 3

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance. Votes: 3

On most lines, making a sale without making a convert does not count for much. Sales made by conviction - by advertising - are likely to bring permanent customers. People who buy through casual recommendations often do not stick Votes: 3

You can never learn Sales by reading books and watching videos, you can only get motivated by that.. To learn Sales (telesales) dial 300+ calls daily and (direct field sales) meet at-least 5 clients daily...Only customers can teach u sales! Votes: 3

I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop. Votes: 3

Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs. Votes: 2

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. Votes: 2

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business. Votes: 2

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. Votes: 2

There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion is hard work. Votes: 2

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. Votes: 2

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats. Votes: 2

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made. Votes: 2

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products. Votes: 2

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. Votes: 2

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. Votes: 2

The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up. Votes: 2

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales. Votes: 2

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. Votes: 2

You don't need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve. Votes: 2

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes. Votes: 2

I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark's largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark's GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation. Votes: 2

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. Votes: 2

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency. Votes: 2

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. Votes: 2

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do. Votes: 2

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. Votes: 2

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. Votes: 2

Lawyers don't run sales forces. Votes: 0

Society is secretly driven by sales Votes: 0

advertising produces familiarity which produces sales Votes: 0

I don't worry about new home sales Votes: 0

Movies help the sales of the comics. Votes: 0

Enchantment is the purest form of sales Votes: 0

Coaches are sales people and change agents. Votes: 0

My book sales make 'real writers' possible. Votes: 0

I love going to tag sales, to auctions. Votes: 0

Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient. Votes: 0

Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans. Votes: 0

Friendly makes sales - and friendly generates repeat business. Votes: 0

The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph. Votes: 0

There can be no success in sales without tenacity. Votes: 0

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs Votes: 0

We miss 100 percent of the sales we don't ask for. Votes: 0

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions. Votes: 0

An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force. Votes: 0

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. Votes: 0

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. Votes: 0

Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales. Votes: 0

Gun sales have spiked every time Democrats win elections since 1980. Votes: 0

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. Votes: 0

A good ad which is not run never produces sales. Votes: 0

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace. Votes: 0

The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them. Votes: 0

The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines. Votes: 0

Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media. Votes: 0

Positive, optimistic sales people sell more than pessimistic sales people. Votes: 0

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship. Votes: 0

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary. Votes: 0

My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics. Votes: 0

A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax. Votes: 0

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record. Votes: 0

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. Votes: 0

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales. Votes: 0

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance. Votes: 0

We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated. Votes: 0

Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less. Votes: 0

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves. Votes: 0

Marketing is becoming a battle based on information than on sales power. Votes: 0

Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures. Votes: 0

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal. Votes: 0

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax. Votes: 0

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales. Votes: 0

We have a relationship with our customer, and that relationship translates into sales. Votes: 0

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day. Votes: 0

Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes. Votes: 0

Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order. Votes: 0

Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter. Votes: 0

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. Votes: 0

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. Votes: 0

I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts. Votes: 0

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. Votes: 0

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales. Votes: 0

In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made. Votes: 0

Take care of your relationships and the sales/money will take care of itself. Votes: 0

Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people. Votes: 0

Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT. Votes: 0

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say. Votes: 0

Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams. Votes: 0

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance. Votes: 0

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. Votes: 0

Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales. Votes: 0

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy. Votes: 0

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. Votes: 0

With sales stabilizing, we should go back to positive price growth early next year. Votes: 0

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market. Votes: 0

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales. Votes: 0

The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people. Votes: 0

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. Votes: 0

A salesperson's ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies. Votes: 0

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull. Votes: 0

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts. Votes: 0

'We need to do more' is not very sophisticated thinking and not good sales management. Votes: 0

Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals. Votes: 0

Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals. Votes: 0

The sales department isn't the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department. Votes: 0

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches. Votes: 0

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves. Votes: 0

I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. Votes: 0

Take more chances than you dare. You'll make more sales than you expect. That's the formula. Votes: 0

If you don't do sales and marketing, you'll forever be at mercy to those who do. Votes: 0

January is expected to do well due to the strong sales of gift cards and promotions. Votes: 0

This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals. Votes: 0

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'. Votes: 0

Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit? Votes: 0

If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales. Votes: 0

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest. Votes: 0

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work. Votes: 0

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups. Votes: 0

The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities. Votes: 0

The only marketers who know what the hell they're doing are those who have worked in sales Votes: 0

Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call. Votes: 0

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market. Votes: 0

I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies. Votes: 0

If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets, Votes: 0

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. Votes: 0

With this magazine, you could change the 'H' to 'G', it may be funnier and better for sales. Votes: 0

Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills. Votes: 0

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis. Votes: 0

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that. Votes: 0

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. Votes: 0

After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers. Votes: 0

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales. Votes: 0

Direct sales offers the education my rich dad taught: build your own network rather than working for a network. Votes: 0

Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates. Votes: 0

You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you. Votes: 0

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines. Votes: 0

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. Votes: 0

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true. Votes: 0

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off. Votes: 0

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales. Votes: 0

The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector. Votes: 0

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. Votes: 0

Ice-T is so old that the first thing he bought with the money from his album sales was his freedom. Votes: 0

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. Votes: 0

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic. Votes: 0

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales. Votes: 0

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. Votes: 0

To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting: There are lots of people! Votes: 0

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing. Votes: 0

There is something about sales that is universal;Out of ten at' least one says YES... try it anywhere... will work! Votes: 0

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain. Votes: 0

Bad sales managers push two buttons: 'more' and 'panic.' Great sales managers have one more button to push: the 'how'. Votes: 0

Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them . Votes: 0

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales? Votes: 0

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. Votes: 0

I shop online mostly. I like to shop from the comfort of my own home without a sales person bugging me. Votes: 0

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. Votes: 0

One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales. Votes: 0

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran. Votes: 0

If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking. Votes: 0

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales." Votes: 0

I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page. Votes: 0

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. Votes: 0

When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top. Votes: 0

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks. Votes: 0

Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models. Votes: 0

Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization. Votes: 0

Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow. Votes: 0

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product. Votes: 0

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence. Votes: 0

Pitching. You're pitching yourself constantly which is probably why there are so many plays about sales. I think also it's like life. Votes: 0

My music should fall under fair use because it's transformative, it's becoming its own entity, and it's not negatively impacting anyone's sales. Votes: 0

Talk is cheap. If it wasn't, people might not toss around 'I love you' like a marked-down phrase in a sales bin. Votes: 0

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were. Votes: 0

I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, What do you have in lingerie? She says, More than you'll ever have! Votes: 0

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me. Votes: 0

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales. Votes: 0

The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions. Votes: 0

Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses. Votes: 0

Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. Votes: 0

The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell. Votes: 0

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out. Votes: 0

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have. Votes: 0

Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps. Votes: 0

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School. Votes: 0

I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say. Votes: 0

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. Votes: 0

Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. Votes: 0

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off. Votes: 0

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. Votes: 0

Ladies, your self-worth is like your price tag. If he's not offering what your worth, he can't have you. No bargains, no sales. Votes: 0

Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. Votes: 0

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management. Votes: 0

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. Votes: 0

Try to sell cold callers something and be very insistent. Works well. Also good for door-to-door sales people, especially if they're wearing poor shoes. Votes: 0

The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears. Votes: 0

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. Votes: 0

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall. Votes: 0

I had a fundamental love of fashion, of products and accessories. I loved the merchandising side of it and understanding how to maximize sales. Votes: 0

What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up? Votes: 0

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself. Votes: 0

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea. Votes: 0

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation. Votes: 0

The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales. Votes: 0

Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars. Votes: 0

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not. Votes: 0

Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales. Votes: 0

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble. Votes: 0

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage. Votes: 0

The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in the media. Votes: 0

In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership. Votes: 0

Social media has shaken up the world of sales, with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter offering new ways to hound leads and unprecedented insights into clients. Votes: 0

While you are responsible to your clients for sales results, you are responsible to consumers for the kind of advertising you bring into their homes. Votes: 0

I live in Portland now. It's beautiful from day one. The Food and the beer, and no sales tax. Get your iPad while you're here. Votes: 0

eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies. Votes: 0

We need to change the focus from celebrating sales at the mall to celebrating the significance of President Washington's birth to the birth of our nation. Votes: 0

A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home. Votes: 0

A relationship is a sales process, and sometimes you must buy to sell, and when you sell it is to the benefit of both of you. Votes: 0

Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president. Votes: 0

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers. Votes: 0

[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs. Votes: 0

Through EdgeRank, Facebook weighs likes, comments, and shares, but it currently does not give greater weight to click-throughs or any other action that leads to sales. Votes: 0

We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model. Votes: 0

When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it. Votes: 0

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities Votes: 0

If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man. Votes: 0

My e-books sales have overtaken everything else, so I think all the marketing has become very much driven by the author now because of social media. Votes: 0

Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: 'We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.' Votes: 0

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales. Votes: 0

Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales. Votes: 0

Consider Brazilian cosmetics brand Natura, which deploys a direct-sales force of more than 718,000. By knocking on doors, it has established a vibrant network of brand supporters. Votes: 0

No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment. Votes: 0

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that Votes: 0

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first. Votes: 0

If all you did to improve your commercial presence was to train your sales people on the importance of influencers ... how much more effective could they be? Votes: 0

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good. Votes: 0

To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job. Votes: 0

On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others. Votes: 0

I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time. Votes: 0

Sell canoes to those who are enduring a drought, and sell sunscreen to those suffering from flooding. But give love freely to all, because samples encourage sales. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing. Votes: 0

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent. Votes: 0

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it. Votes: 0

Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits. Votes: 0

As demand shifts from offline retailers with limited shelf space to online channels with much larger assortments, the sales distribution is not getting fatter in the tail. Votes: 0

Did you ever wake up with an erection...and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!" Votes: 0

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product. Votes: 0

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge. Votes: 0

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit! Votes: 0

Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust. Votes: 0

Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image. Votes: 0

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning. Votes: 0

People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table. Votes: 0

Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics. Votes: 0

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I was always a corporate Fortune 500 girl. Votes: 0

Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent. Votes: 0

We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble. Votes: 0

Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out. Votes: 0

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect. Votes: 0

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries. Votes: 0

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months. Votes: 0

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales. Votes: 0

The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax. Votes: 0

Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%. Votes: 0

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing. Votes: 0

I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town. Votes: 0

My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics. Votes: 0

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth. Votes: 0

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done. Votes: 0

Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. Votes: 0

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. Votes: 0

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. Votes: 0

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales. Votes: 0

By monitoring the activity taking place on social networks, retailers can amplify successful marketing and sales strategies and avoid weak tactics which can later be tied back to organizational objectives. Votes: 0

The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold. Votes: 0

When a copier sales person cold calls a purchasing manager whom he has never met is it any surprise that the purchasing manager will most likely never return that call? Votes: 0

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch of crap you don't need. Votes: 0

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts. Votes: 0

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment. Votes: 0

When you're in something as successful as 'Transformers,' you can't use it as a sales piece for your ability as an actress because it's all about the special effects. Votes: 0

I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them. Votes: 0

The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your sales rep works for me or for you." Votes: 0

People who are using it to sell things on Craigslist to holding garage sales - campaigns - the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign both used Square to raise funds. Votes: 0

Sellers who've embraced social media are creating new opportunities that totally bypass traditional sales channels... It's about good selling - using all the tools that are available to you today. Votes: 0

From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales. Votes: 0

When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers. Votes: 0

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. Votes: 0

Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing, Votes: 0

Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India. Votes: 0

Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. Votes: 0

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization. Votes: 0

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore. Votes: 0

HubSpot's CRM and Sidekick are perfect for companies that want to transform how they attract, engage, and delight prospects, customers and leads and want sales technology that matches today's buying process. Votes: 0

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. Votes: 0

Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005. Votes: 0

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry). Votes: 0

Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. Votes: 0

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales. Votes: 0

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales. Votes: 0

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers. Votes: 0

A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off. Votes: 0

Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle. Votes: 0

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough. Votes: 0

It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug. Votes: 0

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales. Votes: 0

The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf. Votes: 0

The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales. Votes: 0

I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything." No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts. Votes: 0

My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business. Votes: 0

I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’ Votes: 0

Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop. Votes: 0

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. Votes: 0

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase. Votes: 0

While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and development, advertising sales, and mobile platform development. Votes: 0

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year. Votes: 0

Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales. Votes: 0

I've learned from numerous sources that e-mail marketing is still far more effective in driving book sales than social media. That's why we all get those e-mail blasts from Amazon every morning. Votes: 0

You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales. Votes: 0

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better. Votes: 0

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term. Votes: 0

Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, help ensure the safety of our residents. Votes: 0

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music. Votes: 0

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it. Votes: 0

While my six-song EP is unlikely to set any sales records, it's one of my biggest personal achievements - on par with starting my own company. On par with selling my own company. Votes: 0

Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100. Votes: 0

You had to look at it as sales, as costumer service. Costumer's alwasy right, you know? Service with a smile. Those type of things so it's just kinda in me. In my DNA. Votes: 0

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes." Votes: 0

The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally. Votes: 0

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales. Votes: 0

The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news. Votes: 0

Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs. There will always be a place for these kinds of cars. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. Votes: 0

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people. Votes: 0

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively. Votes: 0

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. Votes: 0

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares. Votes: 0

Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities. Votes: 0

The difference is that raving fans, unlike satisfied customers, become part of your sales force. They tell friends, family and co-workers about your services and your products. And, of course, good things will happen! Votes: 0

A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership. Votes: 0

When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something. Votes: 0

When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance. Votes: 0

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets. Votes: 0

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music. Votes: 0

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. Votes: 0

If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that. Votes: 0

We ask sales managers what they would do if they had an extra hour in their week. They always say they would get out in the field and coach their reps. Yet, they don't. Votes: 0

The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales. Votes: 0

Do you have someone watching her house?" (Stephanie) "That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We're so underbudgeted we're one step away from holding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli) Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies. Votes: 0

A lot of times your best sales rep, that A++ player, kills it on a regular basis...but can never describe how they do it. They look at sales as an art, not a science. Votes: 0

I just thought, given the practicalities of financing an independent movie, you have to have some names. That's just the way it works. You have to have a name that can get you foreign pre-sales. Votes: 0

Higher productivity enables companies to increase sales without adding workers. Even if job markets tighten and wages rise, corporate profits can continue to climb as long as worker productivity is growing faster than overall wages. Votes: 0