Sales Pressure Quotes

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.

I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind of the timid buyer that when he is confronted with a brusk demand for an order he can't think of anything else to say, whether he wants it or not.

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

I have next to no interest in makeup as a thing in and of itself, and nothing stresses me out like Sephora's salespeople.

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

A number of former Wells Fargo employees have described their work environment characterized by intense pressure to meet aggressive and unrealistic sales goals. In a 2010 letter to shareholders, Mr. Stumpf wrote that Wells Fargo's goal was eight products per customer because eight rhymed with great.

Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.

I shop online mostly. I like to shop from the comfort of my own home without a sales person bugging me.

I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take 'no' one more time. I could not take the rejection.

I know exactly what it feels like to be an entrepreneur with everything riding on a sale.

I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

When I first saw my line in stores, that's when it really hit me that there was a consumer on the other end of it all, and they were going to have to spend their own money on it. So there was that initial panic. I remember thinking, what if nobody buys it?

I'm selling a product, and I have to be out there; I don't have the option not to be.

I liked 'Rumours,' but to me, there was some point where the focus became the sales, not the music.

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, 'We've got this book. I don't really get it, but we paid for it, so we've got to sell it.' I'm not Tony Parsons; that's not right for me.

Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.