Salesmanship Quotes

• Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

  James Cash Penney

  Art, Practice, Perfection

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• The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

  Ray Kroc

  Art, Educational, Definitions

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• The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Soul, Aliens, Bent

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.61, Routledge

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• Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.

  Jim Rohn

  Children, Mean, Kids

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 06, 2017

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• I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

  Annette Bening

  Desire, Attention, Remember

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Conviction, Buyers, Sellers

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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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• After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Simple, Sound, Principles

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• Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

  Walter Russell

  Income, Volume, Salesman

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• Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Negative, Maximizing, Minimizing

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2017

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• Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

  James Cash Penney

  Limitless, Selling, Salespeople

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• 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.

  Jim Rohn

  Voice, Legs, Selling

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 27, 2013

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• The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it

  Frank Bettger

  Secret, Important, Want

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Song, Book

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

  Jim Rohn

  Skills, Numbers, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 01, 2017

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• Take your job seriously, BUT don't take their complaints personally. If you take it personally you'll get upset and lose your edge. If you take it too personally, you'll lose your edge and your job. If you take it seriously -- it's you with them. If you take it personally, it's you against them. What steps can you take to ensure keeping your cool?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Jobs, Upset, Steps

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• Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational Sales, Marketplace

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 08, 2017

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• The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Way, Advertising, Persuasion

  Source: progressive.org

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• Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.

  Richard Halverson

  People, Missionary, News

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• The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice

  Bob Benson

  Self Confidence, Frustration, Practice

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• What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.

  Stan Musial

  Used, Made, Cardinals

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• This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula

  Chris Murray

  Believe, Competition, Nuggets

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• The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Fashion, Art, Garden

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• I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Powerful, Thinking, Bombs

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• Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Winning, Player

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