Sales Targets Quotes

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

I just have to sell enough records to continue financing making more records.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you.

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.

The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

Whether your dream is a $100,000 in sales or a million, the amount of work is likely the same - you'll still have 86,400 seconds each day, so why couldn't you imagine creating the company and enterprise that can fulfill every aspect of any dream you wish to have?

Salespeople are the most important people in any organization. Until a salesperson gets an order, nobody in the company has a job.

Getting a reward for reaching certain sales targets is certainly attractive.

I worked for a smoothie company, and that was rough. I also sold women's shoes for a very long time. That was super rough.

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

I think we make too many records. One record a year is crazy to me. But some people have to sell tickets. The label has to meet their quarterly number: 'We need a record a year.' All of a sudden, the tail's wagging the dog. It's not the music; it's everything else making the music. That's just backwards. It's wrong.

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store.