Here’s the ultimate collection of 330 sales quotes that talk about success, failure, goals, dreams, imagination, hard work, consistency, business, customer, competitiveness and so on. If you’re a dreamer, an entrepreneur and a businessman, these motivational quotes will help you become a successful person or even a millionaire or a billionaire. This list is a combination of best motivational success quotes and business quotes.
Sales Quotes
1. Hustle Harder. – Anonymous
2. Stay the course! – Anonymous
3. Clarity is power. – Anonymous
4. Choose your hard. – Anonymous
5. Consistency is king. – Anonymous
6. Coffee is for closers. – Anonymous
7. Inches make champions. – Vince Lombardi
8. Better sore than sorry. – Anonymous
9. If you can’t, you must. – Anonymous
10. Practice makes perfect. – Anonymous
11. Motion creates emotion. – Tony Robbins
12. Success breeds success! – Anonymous
13. Fortune favors the bold. – Anonymous
14. Pressure is a privilege. – Billie Jean King
15. Hard training, easy fight! – Anonymous
16. Most people aim… aim… aim… – Anonymous
17. Change before you have to. – Jack Welch
18. Trust trumps transactions. – Anonymous
19. Permission is for suckers. – Anonymous
20. Done is better than perfect. – Anonymous
21. Closed mouths don’t get fed. – Anonymous
22. Success always leaves clues. – Anonymous
23. Make a customer, not a sale. – Katherine Barchetti
24. Stop selling. Start helping. – Zig Ziglar
25. 80% of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
26. It ain’t over ’til it’s over. – Yogi Berra
27. Winning starts with beginning. – Robert H. Schuller
28. Don’t play to play. Play to win! – Anonymous
29. Do small things with great love. – Anonymous
30. There is always room at the top. – Daniel Webster
31. Timid salesmen have skinny kids. – Zig Ziglar
32. Repetition is the key to mastery. – Anonymous
33. Winners Anticipate; Losers React. – Tony Robbins
34. Being busy is a form of laziness. – Anonymous
35. Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
36. I don’t have dreams, I have goals. – Harvey Specter
37. Failure is an event, not a person. – Zig Ziglar
38. Bravery is the solution to regret. – Robin Sharma
39. Focus on progress, not perfection. – Anonymous
40. Be so good, they can’t ignore you. – Steve Martin
41. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napolean Hill
42. Don’t sell the stage, sell the act! – Anonymous
43. If it’s going to be, it’s up to me. – Anonymous
44. Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin
45. It’s harder to be kind than clever. – Anonymous
46. Never ever, ever stop following up. – Anonymous
47. Making the call is making progress. – Rework
48. Ask yourself – what gives me energy? – Anonymous
49. Your past doesn’t equal your future. – Anonymous
50. The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra
51. Play by the rules, but be ferocious. – Phil Knight
52. Nothing happens until a sale is made. – Anonymous
53. Worry is a misuse of the imagination. – Dan Zadra
54. Saints are sinners who kept on going. – Robert Louis Stevenson
55. Life will pay any price you ask of it. – Tony Robbins
56. Adversity introduces a man to himself. – Albert Einstein
57. The more you learn, the more you earn. – Warren Buffett
58. Feedback is the breakfast of champions. – Anonymous
59. Kill your goals. Create habits instead. – Anonymous
60. Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. – Paulo Coelho
61. Ask for the close early, and ask often. – Anonymous
62. A goal properly set is halfway reached. – Abraham Lincoln
63. Losers have goals. Winners have systems. – Scott Adams
64. I’m gonna turn my mentors into my peers. – Anonymous
65. The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates
66. Every choice you make has an end result. – Anonymous
67. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. – George Patton
68. Silence forces a man to confront himself. – Anonymous
69. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
70. What you call a marathon, I call a sprint. – Anonymous
71. Emails that never get sent close no deals. – Anonymous
72. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. – Henry David Thoreau
73. Good things come to those who hustle hard. – Anonymous
74. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
75. I stay ready so I don’t have to get ready. – Conor McGregor
76. Your self-worth determines your net worth. – Anonymous
77. From nothing, to something, to everything. – Conor McGregor
78. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
79. The universe will always test your resolve. – Anonymous
80. Either you run the day or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
81. You may be delayed but you won’t be denied. – Anonymous
82. Value The Relationship More Than The Quota. – Jeff Gitomer
83. The expert in anything was once a beginner. – Helen Hayes
84. Knowledge isn’t power, applied knowledge is. – Paul Chek
85. No man is free who is not master of himself. – Epictetus
86. Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. – Henry J. Kaiser
87. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn
88. Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert Schuller
89. High expectations are the key to everything. – Sam Walton
90. Fear is your road sign to growth and success. – Anonymous
91. Begin Always Expecting Good Things To Happen. – Tom Hopkins
92. Either I will find a way, or I will make one. – Philip Sydney
93. Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. – Walter Anderson
94. Precision beats power, and timing beats speed. – Conor McGregor
95. The secret to getting ahead is getting started. – Anonymous
96. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. – Anonymous
97. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. – Norman Ralph Augustine
98. Winning isn’t everything but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi
99. Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
100. Business is simple; people make it complicated. – Anonymous
101. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. – Roger Staubach
102. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
103. Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out. – Christopher Reeve
104. Your job in sales is to create moments of truth! – Anonymous
105. We’re not just human doings, we’re human beings. – Anonymous
106. Everything we want is on the other side of fear. – George Addair
107. You should either pray or worry — don’t do both. – 50 Cent
108. Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. – Jim Rohn
109. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi
110. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
111. Focus on being productive instead of being busy. – Tim Ferriss
112. Begin by always expecting good things to happen. – Tom Hopkins
113. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
114. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
115. Never take a bet if you don’t know how to win it. – Anonymous
116. Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet. – St. Augustine
117. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. – Ralph Marston
118. You just can’t beat the person who never gives up. – Babe Ruth
119. Self-control is more indispensable than gunpowder. – Henry Morton Stanley
120. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James
121. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. – Christopher Morley
122. The mind is everything. What you think, you become. – Buddha
123. We punish ourselves so we can punish our opponents. – Tido Ortiz
124. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson
125. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth
126. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson
127. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchil
128. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes. – Jim Rohn
129. Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. – Sigmund Freud
130. The dream is free, but the hustle is sold separately! – Anonymous
131. We’re not here to take part, we’re here to take over. – Conor McGregor
132. Losers focus on winners and winners focus on winning. – Anonymous
133. You are now, and you do become, what you think about. – Earl Nightingale
134. Today is always the most productive day of your week. – Mark Hunter
135. If you’re busy all the time – you’re really just lazy. – Anonymous
136. Do what others don’t and you’ll get what others won’t. – Anonymous
137. We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. – John Dryden
138. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine
139. The road of Someday will lead to a town called Nowhere. – Anonymous
140. Appreciation is the currency you pay the universe with. – Anonymous
141. It doesn’t matter where you start. Only that you begin. – Robin Sharma
142. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
143. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
144. Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson
145. You can’t turn a no to a yes without a maybe in between. – Francis Underwood
146. You can’t sell others if you aren’t sold yourself first. – Anonymous
147. Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth. – Mike Tyson
148. Don’t just work IN your business, work ON your business. – Anonymous
149. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller
150. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
151. Today is a blank slate loaded with nothing but potential. – Anonymous
152. When you feel like quitting: think about why you started. – Anonymous
153. Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. – Michael Korda
154. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford
155. Become the person who would attract the results you seek. – Jim Cathcart
156. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs
157. Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. – Julie Andrews
158. Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. – Theodore Roosevelt
159. All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. – Ellen Glasgow
160. There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. – Tony Robbins
161. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau
162. In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance. – Bo Bennett
163. The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse. – John Mason
164. Don’t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value. – Albert Einstein
165. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
166. Success happens at the exact moment you don’t feel like it. – Anonymous
167. Everything You’ve Ever Wanted Is On The Other Side Of Fear. – George Addair
168. I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. – Eleanor Roosevelt
169. Practice like you’ve never won, play like you’ve never lost! – Anonymous
170. Always Do Your Best. What You Plant Now, Will Harvest Later. – Og Mandino
171. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. – Anne Frank
172. If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
173. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. – Zig Ziglar
174. You don’t even really enjoy rest unless you truly deserve it. – Joe Rogan
175. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John R. Wooden
176. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips
177. Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow. – Anthony Robbins
178. Don’t wish for things to be easier, wish for you to be better. – Anonymous
179. Nothing Is Particularly Hard If You Divide It Into Small Jobs. – Henry Ford
180. The hours ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage. – Robin Sharma
181. You either suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. – Jim Rohn
182. I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it’s time to sleep. – Conor McGregor
183. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Anonymous
184. The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them. – Jill Konrath
185. It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better. – Jonathan Ive
186. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
187. You need to be willing to lose if you’re truly committed to win. – Anonymous
188. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan
189. If you don’t take care of your customers, your competitors will! – Anonymous
190. Expect the yes. Embrace the no. That’s how you master the close! – Anonymous
191. Chasing perfection is like chasing the wind, it’s highly futile. – Anonymous
192. It’s important to learn how to say I don’t know with confidence. – John LaValle
193. Don’t let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big. – Anonymous
194. Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. – Albert Einstein
195. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino
196. Expect The Best, Prepare For The Worst, Capitalize On What Comes. – Zig Ziglar
197. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
198. The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. – Bruce Lee
199. Expect the best, prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. – Zig Ziglar
200. Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. – Brian Tracy
201. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey
202. The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. – Mark Zuckerberg
203. Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. – Harry Day
204. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis
205. If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. – Bob Hooey
206. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
207. Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favour. – Brian Tracy
208. The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. – Thomas Jefferson – Anonymous
209. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
210. Motivation Is What Gets You Started. Habit Is What Keeps You Going. – Jim Rohn
211. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
212. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein
213. The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. – Eckhart Tolle
214. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. – Mahatma Gandhi
215. If you only walk on sunny days, you’ll never reach your destination. – Paulo Coelho
216. Most salespeople throw darts in the dark, hoping something will hit. – Anonymous
217. Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales. – Michael Schudson
218. You can learn more from an hour silence than a year of reading books. – Matthew Kelly
219. Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you. – Tony Hsieh
220. Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion. – Shiv Khera
221. Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise. – Anonymous
222. The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. – Elbert Hubbard
223. Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. – Napoleon Hill
224. I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. – Stephen Covey
225. You don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training. – Anonymous
226. Charisma might open doors, but character will keep you in the building. – Anonymous
227. Know yourself so well that you don’t need to explain yourself to others. – John LaValle
228. Fortunately or unfortunately you take yourself with you wherever you go. – Anonymous
229. Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre. – Warren Buffett
230. It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever. – Anonymous
231. Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. – Clayton Christensen
232. The difference between fear and excitement is the way you THINK about it. – Anonymous
233. Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. – Lao Tzu
234. You learn more from getting your butt kicked than from getting it kissed. – Tom Hanks
235. Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers. – Seth Godin
236. Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts. – John Wooden
237. So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. – Dorothea Brande
238. You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Robert Buxton
239. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
240. The minute you’re satisfied with where you are, you aren’t there anymore. – Tony Gwynn
241. Success is never owned; it is only rented – and the rent is due every day. – Anonymous
242. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandh
243. Yes and No are equally good answers. It’s the Maybe that crushes startups. – Anonymous
244. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins
245. I do not know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it. – Susan Butcher
246. The most important promises you make are the promises you make to yourself. – Anonymous
247. We tend to judge others by their behavior, and ourselves by our intentions. – Anonymous
248. I’m a shark. The ground is my ocean and most people don’t know how to swim. – Rickson Gracie
249. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. – Jim Rohn
250. You are the truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know? – Rumi
251. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. – Sheryl Sandberg
252. Remember that failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. – Anonymous
253. You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
254. You need to focus on moving forward rather than endlessly preparing to begin. – Anonymous
255. Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway. – Robert Downey Jr
256. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first. – Sergey Brin
257. Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
258. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
259. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. – Albert Einstein
260. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
261. It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. – Eckhart Tolle
262. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln
263. Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
264. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. – Richard Branson
265. The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. – Napoleon Hill
266. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot
267. 97% of the people who quit too soon… Are employed by the 3% that never gave up. – Anonymous
268. Sales Success Comes After You Stretch Yourself Past Your Limits On A Daily Basis. – Omar Periu
269. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. – Eric Thomas
270. To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. – Ben Jonson
271. In business as in life, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. – Dr. Chet Karrass
272. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol
273. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
274. Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. – Margaret Thatcher
275. You can learn more in 5 minutes of self study than in 5 years of studying the world. – Anonymous
276. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. – George S. Patton
277. If you see it inside of your head, eventually you will see it in front of your eyes. – Anonymous
278. Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. – William Bernbach
279. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. – Wayne Dyer
280. The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley
281. Don’t Worry About Failures, Worry About The Chances You Miss When You Don’t Even Try. – Jack Canfield
282. A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. – Wilson Mizner
283. You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
284. People are starving for decisiveness. If you give it to them, you will rule the world. – Anonymous
285. It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. – Muhammad Ali
286. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour day. – Zig Ziglar
287. Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. – Zig Ziglar
288. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers
289. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see. – Alexandra K. Trenfor
290. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Jung
291. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. – Anonymous
292. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. – Ayn Rand
293. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself. – Anonymous
294. It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life. – Jean Luc Picard
295. A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market. – Jeff Koons
296. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abraham Lincoln
297. Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on. – Don Cooper
298. We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. – George S. Patton
299. Incredible things in the business world are never made by a single person, but by a team. – Steve Jobs
300. The opposite of courage used to be cowardice, today the opposite of courage is conformity. – Rickson Gracie
301. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. – Jim Rohn
302. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas A. Edison
303. If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got. – W. L. Bateman
304. To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business. – Harvey Mackay
305. Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength. – Teddy Roosevelt
306. Some men see things as they are and ask why…I dream of things that never were and ask why not? – Robert Kennedy
307. Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else. – Fred Rogers
308. The number of people who stand ready to consume one’s time, to no purpose, is almost countless. – Booker T. Washington
309. If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. – Anonymous
310. Look for what connects you with other human beings rather than for what separates you from them. – Anonymous
311. People don’t decide their future – they decide their habits and their habits decide their future. – F.M. Alexander
312. Dream impossible dreams! And when those dreams become reality make the next ones more impossible. – Anonymous
313. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller
314. Get over yourself: It’s not about how (bad) you feel, it’s about how you act despite your feelings. – Anonymous
315. At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable? – Conor McGregor
316. I found that if I just do the best that I can, in every moment I have, the future looks after itself. – John Kavanagh
317. Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. – Bill Gates
318. Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. – Biz Stone
319. You don’t close a sale, you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise. – Patricia Fripp
320. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. – Bill Keane
321. The most valuable lessons in your life will most likely come from the most obvious places (in hindsight). – Anonymous
322. When people give me all these great compliments, I thank them, but still go back to my room and practice. – B.B. King
323. Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot. – Jim Rohn
324. If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. – Anonymous
325. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. – Walt Disney
326. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
327. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
328. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas A. Edison
329. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
330. Before selling a product to others, imagine that you’re a customer of your own product and then list down the things you like and dislike about the product as a customer. This will help you make the best product out there! – Devang Vibhakar