Salespeople Quotes - Page 3

• You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

  Seth Godin

  Media, Use, Stranger

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• When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

  Al Neuharth

  Mistake, Boss, Clerks

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• Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Unique, Differences, Brilliant

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• Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

  James Cash Penney

  Limitless, Selling, Salesmanship

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• Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Teacher, Financial, Planners

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2017

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• There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Ideas, Facts, Internet

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• I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.692, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.

  Peter Thiel

  Looks, Matter, Computer

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• Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Social, Best Place

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• Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.

  Margo Kaufman

  Construction Workers, Blue, Medicine

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• Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don't need salespeople.

  Aaron Levie

  Mean, Doe, Needs

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• There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts-the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward. When neither is present, one can hardly hope that salespeople will want to be trained or want to do a good job. When disappointment is not expressed that one hasn't done a better job, or when credit is withheld when one has done a good job, there is absolutely no incentive to put forth the best effort.

  John Moulder Wilson

  Jobs, Disappointment, Punishment

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• As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

  Katherine Losse

  Engineering, Laughing, Office

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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