Salesmanship Quotes

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way. ~ Chris Murray

Isabelle had always thought of her mind as a garden, a magical place to play as a child, when the grown-ups were having conversations and she was expected to listen politely-- and even, although she hated to admit this, later with Edward, her husband, when listening to the particularities of his carpet salesmanship wore her thin. Every year the garden grew larger, the paths longer and more complicated. Meadows of memories.

Of course, her mental garden hadn't always been well tended. There were the years when the children were young, fast-moving periods when life flew by without time for the roots of deep reflection, and yet she knew memories were created whether one pondered them or not. She had always considered that one of the luxuries of growing older would be the chance to wander through the garden that had grown while she wasn't looking. She would sit on a bench and let her mind take every path, tend every moment she hadn't paid attention to, appreciate the juxtaposition of the one memory against another. ~ Erica Bauermeister

Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot. ~ J.B. Priestley

Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship. ~ Wendell Berry

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice. ~ James Cash Penney

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It. ~ Herbert Marcuse

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way. ~ Ray Kroc

Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally. ~ Chris Murray

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator
the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts. ~ Herbert Marcuse

The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition. ~ Tim Weiner

Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must. ~ Claude C. Hopkins

When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that practically all the educational machinery on earth, is still in the hands of God-selling or Marx-selling combines. Everywhere in close co-operation with our nationalist governments, the oil and steel interests, our drug salesmanship, and so forth, the hirelines of these huge religious concerns, with more or less zeal and loyalty, are selling destruction to mankind. ~ H.G.Wells

There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. ~ Henry J. Kaiser

Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always. ~ Honeya

People seldom pay for what you have, they pay for what they want. ~ Saji Ijiyemi

It was a small of her back and her face that got so tired. Their (her retail employer's) mono was supposed to be, 'Keep on your toes and smile.' Once she was out of the store she had to frown a long time to get her face natural again. Even her ears were tired. ~ Carson McCullers

To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience. ~ Ruth Orkin

In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable. ~ Chris Murray

Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them? ~ Chris Murray

We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals ... The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies ... the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities ... salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease. ~ A.W. Tozer

A great real estate agent don't sells, he helps. ~ Amit Kalantri

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves. ~ Walter Russell

Think about it: if someone had found a way to manipulate human choice and free will – if someone actually had that kind of power – wouldn't it be a tad surprising if they then decided to share their secret with the masses in a book for $20? Not to mention how it would be just very slightly unethical. ~ Chris Murray

A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay. ~ Jim Rohn

Something new seems to be at work in the contemporary world - a process that is eating away the very heart of social life, not merely by putting salesmanship in place of moral virtue, but by putting everything - virtue included - on sale. ~ Roger Scruton

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship. ~ Erle Stanley Gardner

A good negotiator flatters the seller not the product. ~ Amit Kalantri

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative. ~ Barbara Corcoran

The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it ~ Frank Bettger

The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice ~ Bob Benson

This is not a con game in the criminal sense, in which con artists deliberately dupe the suckers. Instead it's a form of good salesmanship, where the first principle is to sell yourself first. We sell ourselves on the value of education in solving social problems, and then we buy what we're selling. The whole thing rests on the uncertain foundation of our collective willingness to continue to believe the con. Whatever the problem, we continue to keep the faith in schools as the answer. ~ David Labaree

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work. ~ Phil Jackson

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

He could sell snow to an Eskimo.
--Overheard in a Real Estate Office ~ Bob Eckstein

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople. ~ James Cash Penney

Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay. ~ B.C. Forbes

...that is what a salesmanship is all about: feign thankfulness when you want to slap at the opponent's face. ~ Girdhar Joshi

If you don't find a good deal for your customer, your competitor will. ~ Amit Kalantri

Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news. ~ Richard Halverson

Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer. ~ Paul G. Hoffman

The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation. ~ Chris Murray

Salespeople move an economy of a nation. Someone could have invented the most amazing invention that is going to be a revolution for a planet, but that product goes nowhere unless someone sells it to someone else. ~ Michael Delaware

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence. ~ Brooke Hauser

You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while. ~ Honeya

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense. ~ Reginald Fessenden

Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them. ~ T Jay Taylor

Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job ~ Chris Murray

Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work. ~ Bruce Barton