The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
— Michelangelo
Glamorous Sales Success quotations
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.
I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent.
Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur.
I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.
Practice is just as valuable as a sale.
The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.
Success ... seems to be connected with action.
Those who win are those who think they can.
Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.
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.
Action will delineate and define you.
Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!
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.
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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.
Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success.
Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.
A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.
Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every person's success, be they male or female, banker or p0rnographer:Trust in your gut.
Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win - win situation.
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.
It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.
There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.
Salespeople are the most vital people in any business.
Without sales, the biggest and most sophisticated companies shut down. Sales are the spark plug in the engine of free enterprise. There is a direct relationship between the success of the sales community and the success of the entire country.
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.
Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.
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.
Attitude is the criterion for success.
But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. ...Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.
Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock's!
The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging works of literature. Works of literature that in the United States would sell only a few thousand copies, if they managed to find a publisher at all. The success of these texts in Spain or Italy or wherever contributes to a kind of national conversation that we're perhaps not having here in the U.S.