Retail Sales Quotes

• 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

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Perspective, Motivational Sales

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Hard Work, Motivational Sales, Great Sales

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2016

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

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Motivational Sales, Titles

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• Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.

  Michael Schudson

  May, Advertising

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.29, Routledge

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

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Keys, Doors, Resistance

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

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Winning, Thinking, Sales Person

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• 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.

  Tate Taylor

  Educational, Motivational Sales, Retail

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS.

  James Traficant

  Retail, Income, Irs

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• 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.

  Mark Skousen

  Reality, Want, Gains

  The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 60, Nr. 3-10, (p. 7), 2010.

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• The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Men, Would Be

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• 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.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Strong, Retail, Unemployment

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

  Bruce Bartlett

  Ideas, Dumb, Trying

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• Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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