Quotes and Sayings about Sales
"Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen."
- Dick Armey
(Related: Hurt)
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
- Mary Kay Ash
(Related: Life, Sales, Succeed, Will)
"Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive."
- Jean M. Auel
(Related: Positive, Letters, Sales)
"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk."
- Harry F. Banks
(Related: Enthusiasm)
"Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Sales, Value)
"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Performance, Living, Musicians, Sales, Writers)
"There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Time, Internet, Newspapers, Sales)
"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Ability, Sales)
"In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Key, Sales)
"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state."
- Craig Benson
(Related: Business, Tax, Sales)
"Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent."
- William Bernbach
(Related: Creativity, Result, Sales)
"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs."
- Dorthea Brande
(Related: Ideas, Sales, Will)
"We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building."
- Sherrod Brown
(Related: Finance, War, Building, Mission, Nation, Oil, Sales)
"But either way you cannot deny the sales and what we did."
- Steve Brown
(Related: Sales)
"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."
- Jack Bruce
(Related: Country, Internet, Sales)
"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Sales)
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Sales, Talk, Will)
"McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Being, Old, Pretty, Sales, Years)
"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."
- George Carlin
(Related: Purpose, Defeat, Self)
"My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?"
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Father, Wife, Successful, Being, Law, Now, Practice, Questions, School, Wine)
"The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales."
- Melanie Chisholm
(Related: Success, Hope, Being, Question, Sales)
"Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Business, Being, Congress, Manufacturing, Sales, states, United)
"I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest."
- Tom Cochrane
(Related: Care, Sales)
"The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most."
- Confucius
(Related: Attention, Books, Neglect)
"The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again."
- Hansie Cronje
(Related: End, Now, Quick, Sales, Shops)
"Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace."
- Rick Danko
(Related: Sales)
"We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books."
- Glenn Danzig
(Related: Art, Books, Pretty, Sales)
"Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001."
- Bill Delahunt
(Related: Internet, Sales, states, Taxes)
"Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt."
- Bill Delahunt
(Related: Burden, Tax, Sales)
"I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year."
- Michael F. Easley
(Related: Tax, Rest, Sales, Sunset, Will)
"With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that."
- Jo Ann Emerson
(Related: Economy, Sales, Trade, Unemployment)
"Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment."
- Garth Ennis
(Related: Time, Character, Balance, Sales, Universe, Want)
"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."
- Brian Eno
(Related: Talent, People)
"The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups."
- Norman Granz
(Related: Sales)
"Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything."
- Merv Griffin
(Related: History, Doubt, Television)
"When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance."
- Justin Guarini
(Related: People, Reason, Sales, Vengeance)
"As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada."
- Kenny Guinn
(Related: Sales, State, Taxes)
"Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Being, First, Tax, Income, Property, Sales, Taxes)
"We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal."
- Phil Harris
(Related: Business, End, Sales, Statistics, Worry)
"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales."
- Stephen Hawking
(Related: Sales)
"Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Buying, College, Friends, Kids, Living, Sales)
"Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't."
- Morris Hite
(Related: Advertising, Talk)
"It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug."
- John Hunter
(Related: Alcohol, Sales, Voting)
"Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax."
- William L. Jenkins
(Related: Tax, Income, Sales, State, states)
"I never really paid attention to sales until the second record."
- Daniel Johns
(Related: Attention, Sales)
"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."
- Vernon Jordan
(Related: Goals, Performance, Diversity, Sales)
"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Death, Measure, Merit, Waiting)
"The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed."
- Alan Keyes
(Related: Government, Excise, Tax, Income, Sales, Taxes, Years)
"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent."
- Henry A. Kissinger
(Related: Sales)
"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Experience, Company, Sales)
"Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations."
- David Knopfler
(Related: Car, Content, Fancy, Now, Pretty, Sales)
"I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money."
- Henry Kravis
(Related: Money, Time, Thought, Selling, Sales)
"Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think."
- Chantal Kreviazuk
(Related: Awards, Sales)
"The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold."
- Niki Lauda
(Related: Alliance, Network, Sales)
"Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them."
- Jerry Lawler
(Related: Business, Mind)
"No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: Government)
"Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: Selling, Care)
"Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film."
- Richard Lester
(Related: Day, Film, Night, Profit, Sales, Will)
"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
- Bernard Liautaud
(Related: Business, Intelligence, Growth, Company, Potential, Sales)
"Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman."
- Bela Lugosi
(Related: Actor)
"I think basically an actor is a salesman."
- Paul Lynde
(Related: Actor)
"We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated."
- Joe Manchin
(Related: Food, Tax, Now, Sales, Want)
"Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Business, Community, Confidence, Jobs, Law, Leading, Loss, Order, Sales, State)
"For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more."
- Richard Masur
(Related: Time, Being, Example, First, Sales)
"Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary."
- Mike May
(Related: Americans, Sales)
"Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: People, Tax, Income, Sales, State, states, Taxes, Washington)
"However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers."
- Mark Millar
(Related: Books, Sales)
"In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad."
- David Milne
(Related: Development, Company, Engineering, Majority, Sales, Will)
"At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir."
- Richard Morris
(Related: Sales)
"Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?"
- Alva Myrdal
(Related: Night, Sales)
"Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005."
- Randy Neugebauer
(Related: Home, Nation, Past, Sales, Years)
"Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today."
- Randy Neugebauer
(Related: Growth, Strength, Nation, Sales, Sound, Today)
"It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle."
- Gary Oldman
(Related: Film, Now, Old, Sales)
"The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Will)
"Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Art, Perfection, Practice, Study)
"Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Selling, Living)
"It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Children, Consideration, Practice)
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Work, Mother, Father, Company, Printing, School)
"I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman."
- David Hyde Pierce
(Related: Security)
"The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio."
- Jonathan Potter
(Related: Money, Business, People, Sales)
"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets."
- Orville Redenbacher
(Related: Quality, Growth, Competition, Sales)
"Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares."
- Rosser Reeves
(Related: Advertising, Economics, Force, Sales, Will)
"The good lawyer is the great salesman."
- Janet Reno
"So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff."
- Adam Rich
(Related: Money, Right, Sales)
"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
- Herb Ritts
(Related: First, Parents, Photography)
"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."
- Herb Ritts
(Related: Career, Job)
"I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help."
- Ann Robinson
(Related: Food, Care, Tax, Help, Living, Sales)
"I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran."
- Andy Rooney
(Related: Sales)
"We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales."
- David Rose
(Related: Sales, Suffering)
"Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population."
- Stan Sakai
(Related: Time, Books, Games, Kids, Population, Sales)
"While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things."
- Saint Francis de Sales
"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Peace, Spirit, World)
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Strength, Nothing)
"Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Virtue, Reputation)
"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Angels, Friends, Help, Praise, Spiritual)
"There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!"
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Love, Man)
"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Anger, Thought, Man)
"Those who love to be feared fear to be loved."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Love, Fear)
"Be who you are and be that well."
- Saint Francis de Sales
"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Progress)
"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Time, Difficulties)
"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Courage)
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."
- Saint Francis de Sales
"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Will, World)
"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: First, Patience)
"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Friendship, Quarrel)
"A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Nothing, Quick)
"We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work."
- Saint Francis de Sales
(Related: Work, God, Now, Present)
"I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively."
- R. A. Salvatore
(Related: Business, Influence, Internet, Sales)
"Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Education, Sex, Sales)
"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Health, Brother, Children, Drugs, March, Mental health, Sales)
"Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term."
- Michael Schudson
(Related: Sales, Will)
"Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales."
- Michael Schudson
(Related: Advertising, May, Sales)
"Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed."
- Dougray Scott
(Related: Feelings, Actor, Being)
"Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures."
- Sidney Sheldon
(Related: Angels, Meaning, Reason, Sales, Tea, Woman)
"So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that."
- Josh Silver
(Related: Art, Life, People, Killing, Right, Sales, World)
"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."
- Shepard Smith
(Related: News)
"In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing."
- Peter Sotos
(Related: Work, People, Marketing, Past, Sales)
"Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved."
- Thomas Sowell
(Related: American, Jobs, Sales, World)
"Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write."
- Nicholas Sparks
(Related: Impression, First, Open, Sales, Will, Writer)
"'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales."
- Howard Stern
(Related: Choice, Sales)
"We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well."
- Jackie Stewart
(Related: Fact, Racing, Sales)
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."
- W. Clement Stone
(Related: Attitude, Sales)
"If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed."
- Robert Strauss
(Related: Tax, Sales)
"So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman."
- Allen Tate
(Related: Life, Failure)
"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
- Hunter S. Thompson
(Related: Car, Money, America, Killing, Nation, World)
"The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve."
- Mike Thompson
(Related: Income, Now, Sales)
"Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling."
- Uma Thurman
(Related: Men, Selling, Job, Want, Will, Years)
"You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music."
- Obie Trice
(Related: Music, Career, Sales, Trying)
"Manuel Rosales is being unjustly persecuted. He won't return to Venezuela under these circumstances, because Peru will never expel him."
- Javier Valle-Riestra
(Related: Being, Circumstances, Will)
"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."
- William Vickrey
(Related: Gain, Loss, Sales)
"There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers."
- Andrzej Wajda
(Related: Money, Film, Giving, Legislation, Sales, Sharing)
"The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product."
- Rob Walton
(Related: Business, People, America, Running, Sales, Shops)
"We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses."
- Meg Whitman
(Related: Business, Job, Jobs, Sales, states)
"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Selling, Nothing)
"Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman."
- Carey Williams
(Related: Change, Daughter, Jokes, Now, Traveling)
"When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?"
- Dick Wolf
(Related: History, People, Advertising, Focus, Sales, Saying)
"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."
- Early Wynn
(Related: Losing)