Selling Strategies Quotes

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

I always knew that content was the best way to sell things, but my thing was, why sell other people's stuff if I have a point of view?

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

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'

Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

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.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

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

I have to sell my idea, but they want it to be sold. I don't think I've ever done anything anyone's regretted.

Many salespeople are trying to make their quota rather than developing a deeper belief in their product or service - and even worse, they don't have a strong enough belief in themselves.

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

I think I'm not a natural-born salesman, for sure, but If I have a product I really believe in, I can overcome some of the shyness and get through the things that aren't natural to me.

There's a right way to sell and a wrong way to sell.

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

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

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.

Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.

Salespeople are in the decision business. Their livelihood depends on the decisions of others.

Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.