Being a sales representative is tough. You’re always on the grind, chasing leads and trying to close more deals.
However, you need some motivation to crush your sales quota at times—a reminder of why you love what you do. Or perhaps you need a morale boost after losing a sale you thought you would close.
Below, we’ve compiled a list of inspiring sales quotes that will remind you that while the road to success isn’t easy, it’s worth it. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, demotivated, rejected, or just need to hear something positive, you’ll find these inspiring quotes for sales teams helpful.
Let’s get motivated, shall we?
Inspiring Quotes for Sales Teams and Sales Professionals
- “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The one thing you’re putting off or dreading? That’s your brain telling you it’s the thing you need to do most and next. Get it done. Stop dreading. Do.“ – Nancy Nardin
- “Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude.” – Ralph Marston
- “Always do your best. What you plant now, you’ll harvest later.” – Og Mandino
- “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything.“ – John Wooden
- “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
- “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey
- “If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.” – Fran Tarkenton
- “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. – Marian Wright Edelman
- What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas. – Jill Konrath
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
- “Before LinkedIn and other social networks, in the sales world, ABC stood for Always Be Closing. Now it means Always Be Connecting.” – Jill Rowley
- “I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.” – Estée Lauder
- “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “Dream big! There are no limitations to how good you can become or how high you can rise except the limits you put on yourself.” – Brian Tracy
- “Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it’s not just stamina in your effort. It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.” – Angela Duckworth
- “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” – Jim Cathcart
- “You must expect great things from yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
- “It’s no longer about interrupting, pitching, and closing. It’s about listening, diagnosing and prescribing.” – Mark Roberge
- “If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you’ll find a way.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Today is always the most productive day of your week.” – Mark Hunter
- “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
- “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
- “Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
- “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it’s going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Teddy Roosevelt
- “If you don’t believe in what you’re selling, neither will your prospect.” – Frank Bettger
- “One of the best predictors of ultimate success … isn’t natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.” – Daniel H. Pink
- “Sales enablement can’t be reactive. It has to be a full-blown strategy that’s woven into the fabric of the company.” – Roderick Jefferson
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
- “What you focus on is what you get.” – Bob Burg
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
- “How you sell is more important than what you sell.” – Andy Paul
- “Don’t expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won’t be. Don’t count on motivation. Count on discipline.” – Jocko Willink
- “Establishing trust is better than any sales technique.” – Mike Puglia
- “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John R. Wooden
- “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
- “There is no magic to closing. There are no magic phrases. Closing the deal is completely dependent on the situation.” – Alice Heiman
- “I never lose. I either win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela
- Growth and comfort do not coexist. – Ginni Rometty
- “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
- “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” – Thomas Paine
- “Sellers who listen to buyers carefully and then give them the missing ingredients – those are the ones who stand out.” – Deb Calvert
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
- “Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.“ – Bob Burg
- “When reps take the role of a curious student rather than an informed expert, buyers are much more inclined to engage.” – Jeff Hoffman
- “If you’re working on something you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
- “The best salespeople wonder what it would be like to be in the other person’s shoes. They know they can’t play that game unless they continually strive to train themselves in how we as human beings communicate.” – Bob Phibbs
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them” – Ann Landers
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “Sales is an outcome, not a goal. It’s a function of doing numerous things right, starting from the moment you target a potential prospect until you finalize the deal.” – Jill Konrath
- “The major difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.” – Grant Cardone
- “Approach each customer with the idea of helping them solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” – Brian Tracy
- “True productivity comes from allowing yourself to make mistakes. Do so, and you’ll succeed more often than any ten perfectionists.” – Laura Stack
- “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.” – W. Clement Stone
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.” – Dan Waldschmidt
- “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” – Omar Periu
- “To build a long-term, successful enterprise, when you don’t close a sale, open a relationship.” – Patricia Fripp
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
- “Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time – Thomas Edison
- “The story is the heart of the sale.” – Matthew Pollard
- “Prospecting – find the man with the problem.” – Ben Friedman
- “Either run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- Great sellers go into a meeting with multiple next-steps; this allows them to proactively respond if a plan does not unfold as planned.” – Tibor Shanto
- “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” – Thomas J. Watson Jr
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
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