Quotes About Salesmanship

People can dislike you—and you often sell more by offending some—but they should never misunderstand you.

The first principle of the exploitive mind is to divide and conquer. And surely there has never been a people more ominously and painfully divided than we are—both against each other and within ourselves. Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship. Its stock in trade in politics is to sell despotism and avarice as freedom and democracy.

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

When you read the phrase "selling your product or service," don't just think in terms of the product or service your company sells, but also your individual and intangible personal product or service—you. And understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence, and income. And

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

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

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

And on she went about the room, serving food and compliments, fixing every guest with that strange piercing gaze of hers, so that by the time she finished and was ready to do her demonstration, everyone obediently swung their knees in her direction, their faces attentive, ready to be sold Tupperware, as if a firm but fair teacher had taken control of a rowdy classroom.

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.

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

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.

Never trust a person that tries to sell you by how righteous they are. I'm telling your right now, it's a scam.

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

the "first step in salesmanship" was "autosuggestion," "the principle through which the salesman saturates his own mind with belief in the commodity or service offered for sale, as well as in his own ability to sell.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

I can sell a fight, make no mistake.

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

They either don't get it or don't want to. Maybe I'm just not selling it well.

Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for everyone else is merely the need to improve reality for them.

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.