Selling Quotes
Top 15 Selling Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
The successful salesperson cares first for the customers, second for the products.
- Philip Kotler (1931- ), American marketing professor,
pictured right.
No 2
The sale merely consummates the courtship. Then the marriage begins. How good the marriage is depends on how
well the relationship is managed by the seller,
- Theodore (Ted) Levitt, pictured right, in
The Marketing Imagination
(1983)
No 3
The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
- Ray Kroc (1902-84), founder of McDonald’s, pictured right.
No 4
When you stop talking, you've lost a customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.
- Estée Lauder (1906-2004), American cosmetics boss,
pictured right.
No 5
Selling... is not marketing.
- Theodore (Ted) Levitt, pictured right, in Marketing Myopia
(1960 Harvard Business Review article)
No 6
If you don’t sell, it’s not the product that’s wrong, it’s you.
- Estée Lauder (1906-2004), American cosmetics
tycoon, pictured right.
No 7
Do you sincerely want to be rich?
(key question to salesmen)
- Bernard (Bernie) Cornfeld (1927–95), American businessman, pictured right.
No 8
We’re not screwing the customers. All we’re doing is holding them down while the salespeople screw them.
(the marketing professional’s motto).
- Scott Adams, pictured right, in The Dilbert Principle (1996).
No 9
A salesman has got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.
(Charley in the 1949 play Death of a
Salesman)
- Arthur Miller (1915-2005), Amrican writer, pictured right.
No 10
A soft answer turns away wrath but grievous words stir up anger,
(Proverbs 15:1)
- the Bible.
No 11
Talent is being able to sell what you’re feeling.
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977),
American pop star, pictured right.
No 12
Something better to sell
(marketing slogan)
- Procter and Gamble, American company (owner of Gillette, Max Factor, Pampers,
Fairy and Ariel)
No 13
No problem is so great that it cannot be overcome by a salesperson who has the proper motivation,
- Scott Adams, pictured right, The Dilbert Principle (1996).
No 14
Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
- James Stewart (1908-97), American film star, pictured right.
No 15
People don't buy things but buy solutions to problems.
- Theodore (Ted) Levitt, pictured right, in
The Marketing Imagination
(1982).
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