Quotes About Sales

According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.

So as a salesperson, you put yourself in a stronger position by positioning the value of your product or service in terms of the positive benefits it provides as well as the problems it solves or prevents.

It's amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it. You'll be surprised how many sales calls you can make when you have no alternative except to succeed.

We do not sell lipstick, we buy customers.

If the salesperson is busy, he or she should nod and say 'I'll be with you in a few moments,' so the customer won't mind waiting.

I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.

Ask my family about my obsession for discounts and they will tell you.

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

There's nothing so absurd that you can't find at least one person to buy it.

Con man?" he said, stuffing the brochures back in the duffel bag and zipping it up. "Absolutely not. That's a legitimate policy. I've sold hundreds of them, and not a single policy holder has ever been abducted by an alien.

One thing I learned in all my years as a tech person: tech is more about sales than it is about code.

Self-evident, isn't it? You don't have to study for four years in Harvard to discover that. Yet I know and you know department store owners who will rent expensive space, buy their goods economically, dress their windows appealingly, spend thousands of dollars in advertising and then hire clerks who haven't the sense to be good listeners—clerks who interrupt customers, contradict them, irritate them, and all but drive them from the store.

After all, nobody likes to be sold. But we all like to make good buying decisions.

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling, according to Amelio. He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

The year before, 279,000 Apple IIs were sold, compared to 240,000 IBM PCs and its clones.

way that reduced the role of direct sales to universities.

The iMac went on sale in August 1998 for $1,299. It sold 278,000 units in its first six weeks, and would sell 800,000 by the end of the year, making it the fastest-selling computer in Apple history.

By the end of 2010, Apple had sold ninety million iPhones, and it reaped more than half of the total profits generated in the global cell phone market.

predijo que Apple vendería un millón de canciones en seis meses. En vez de eso, la tienda iTunes vendió un millón de canciones en seis días.

Partly because of the poor sales of the Cube, Apple produced

The company's first office, after it moved out of his family garage, was in a small building it shared with a Sony sales office.

By 1972 the price of a pocket calculator had dropped to $100, and 5 million units were sold. By 1975 the price was down to $25, and sales were doubling every year. In 2014 a Texas Instruments pocket calculator cost $3.62 at Walmart.