Selling Quotes - Page 29

• There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Loss, Men

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• 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.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Keys, Yield

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• Evangelism is selling a dream.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Inspirational, Dream, Evangelism

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• His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Unique, Humanity

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• Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.

  Brian Tracy

  Complaining, Conversation, Criticize

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Successful Selling”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line.

  Donald Trump

  Eye, Winning, Doors

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• I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Data, Shoes

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• I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Nice, Mean, People

  "Scarlett Johansson: Scarlett Woman". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. February 1, 2004.

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• It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Country, Children, Real

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• Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Nice, Agriculture, Would Be

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• You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

  Phil McGraw

  Honor, Employment, Should

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• My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

  Sara Blakely

  Years, Fax Machines, Firsts

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• Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

  Brian Tracy

  Phrases, Form, Ifs

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• Selling more stuff to more people more often for more money more efficiently

  Sergio Zyman

  Selling More, People, Stuff

  Sergio Zyman (2004). “Renovate Before You Innovate: Why Doing the New Thing Might Not be the Right Thing”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Direct Selling, Skills

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• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  Young Jeezy

  Rapper, Long, People

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!

  William Goldman

  Gratitude, Pain, Believe

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• Tech stocks were the cubic zirconium of the market. They looked good and were sexy, but they just were a way for the company selling them to make money. That's always going to be transient in terms of the stock market. What's real is that companies have to compete. Technology used well is a great tool to enable that if only because most companies dont use technologies well.

  Mark Cuban

  Sexy, Real, Technology

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

  Jack White

  Asking Questions, Waiting, Answers

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• When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.

  Clint Walker

  War, Doors, Car

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• The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

  Michael Scott

  Ideas, Cezanne, Contentious

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• A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

  Robert Genn

  Art, May, Difficult

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• Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

  John Vianney

  Sunday, Holy Days, Giving

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• Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Women, Sisterhood

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• I arrived at my hut in Beverly Hills just in time to keep real estate men from plotting off and selling my front yard. They will sell you anything or anybody's in the world as long as they can get a first payment... It used to be only Iowa that was out here but now they have three or four adjoining states interested and they are here, too. Real estate agents - you never saw as many in your life; they are as thick as bootleggers.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Men, Iowa

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