Sales Ability Quotes

The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.

Don't tell me you can pitch...pitch. Don't tell me you can sell...sell.

What I know now is that everybody in life, no matter where you are or what you do, must be able to sell in order to be successful. I used to believe that I could be successful on talent alone. What I realize now is that I can only be successful if I can have people buy my talent.

My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

I can sell anything. I'm very convincing.

There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.

There are people who are born to do it. I was born to do it, and I just had it. I was just always selling and selling and selling. And if you can sell, you can be an entrepreneur, you just have to start that company for whatever you're good at selling. But for everybody else, if you have a vision, but you're willing to do the work to follow through, it's more about preparation and it's more about investing the time to become knowledgeable.... And most people aren't willing to do that. So it's not that anybody can't be an entrepreneur. But if you're finding yourself asking "What kind of companies should I start?," you're not ready. "What do you think I should do?" You're not ready. "Am I ready to start this company?" You're not ready. If you find yourself, "I know this so much better than this company, this company, this company, if I can get in there and just get one account," then you're ready.

(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not... I'm not... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid!

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

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