Quotes About Sales

Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

The best part of it for me personally was that every time I saw a new Walgreen's store going up it meant new business. This sort of multiplication was clearly the way to go. I spent less and less time chasing pushcart vendors around the West Side and more time cultivating large accounts where big turnover would automatically winch in sales in the thousands and hundreds of thousands.

But I paid particular attention to the french-fry operation. The brothers had indicated this was one of the key elements in their sales success, and they'd described the process.

Too many salesmen, I found, would make a good presentation and convince the client, but they couldn't recognize that critical moment when they should have stopped talking. If

I've been in the kitchens of a lot of restaurants and drive-ins selling Multimixers around the country," I told them, "and I have never seen anything to equal the potential of this place of yours. Why don't you open a series of units like this? It would be a gold mine for you and for me, too, because every one would boost my Multimixer sales. What d'you say?" Silence.

No self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.

I had spent the previous summer and lunch hours during the school year working in my uncle Earl Edmund Sweet's drugstore soda fountain in Oak Park. That was where I learned that you could influence people with a smile and enthusiasm and sell them a sundae when what they'd come for was a cup of coffee.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.

As long as people are buying music, it's good for everybody.

Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.

For years, we've asked our suppliers to prioritize the talent and diversity of their sales teams calling on our company.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

It was our belief we should have a customer base and that the catwalk was actually supporting and increasing the business.

Buying new books supports the writer by providing both a royalty and an audience; a writer whose book sells well has a better chance of selling another.

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

He described his grand strategy as indirection. If General Motors hired Joe Schmo to sell cars, Joe Schmo would give an interview to Road & Track, telling them the specs of the Thunderbird, engine size in cubic inches, zero-to-sixty, and so on. Given the same job, Bernays would lobby Congress for higher speed limits, making it more fun to own a Thunderbird. Rather than fight for a single season of sales, he would make the world more friendly to his product.

An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person.

big-box stores and outlet malls, and then you add e-sales on top of that—" Kat grimaced. "Small businesses get outpriced fast.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.