Quotes about sales

"In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice."

Alesandra, Tony on sales   

"Buying is a profound pleasure."

Beauvoir, Simone De on sales   

"Sell cheap and tell the truth."

Blumkin, Rose on sales   

"In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on sales   

"The sale begins when the customer says yes."

Mackay, Harvey on sales   

"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."

Marx, Karl on sales   

"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."

Mcluhan, Marshall on sales   

"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."

Mcluhan, Marshall on sales   

"Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory."

Miller, Arthur on sales   

"Everyone lives by selling something."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on sales
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"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect."

Stone, W. Clement on sales
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"A sale is not something you pursue, it's what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer."

Unknown, Source on sales   

"Sell the sizzle, not the steak."

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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."

Wilde, Oscar on sales   

"Don’t pay attention to those who offer too much. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on sales