Top 120 Sales Motivational Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here’s what’s exciting: There are lots of people!”

— Jim Rohn

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2. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”

— Zig Ziglar

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3. “For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.”

— Zig Ziglar

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4. “I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.”

— Zig Ziglar

5. “Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.”

— Brian Tracy

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6. “If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you.”

— Zig Ziglar

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7. “Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems.”

— Mark Cuban

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8. “Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.”

— Jay Conrad Levinson

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9. “Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.”

— Rory Vaden

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10. “The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

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11. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

— Zig Ziglar

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12. “Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”

— Dale Carnegie

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13. “Never lower your price, add value.”

— Grant Cardone

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14. “In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect and inspires, encouraging others to do their best.”

— Zig Ziglar

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15. “Stop selling. Start helping.”

— Zig Ziglar

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16. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”

— Zig Ziglar

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17. “When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.”

— Zig Ziglar

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18. “Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

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19. “We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.”

— Zig Ziglar

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20. “Each failure brings you one step closer to success.”

— Zig Ziglar

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21. “Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don’t even call it work; for them, it’s a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!”

— Grant Cardone

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22. “Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!”

— Grant Cardone

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23. “Sales fixes everything.”

— Guy Kawasaki

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24. “Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity.”

— Brian Tracy

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25. “Success comes in cans, failure comes in can’ts.”

— Zig Ziglar

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26. “I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.”

— Og Mandino

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27. “People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.”

— Zig Ziglar

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28. “You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them.”

— Zig Ziglar

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29. “Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules, or holidays, and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people who have a great work ethic.”

— Grant Cardone

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30. “If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it’s your moral obligation to sell it.”

— Zig Ziglar

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31. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect.”

— W. Clement Stone

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32. “Average is a failing plan! Average doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.”

— Grant Cardone

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33. “Quality performance starts with a positive attitude.”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

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34. “Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

— Mary Kay Ash

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35. “The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”

— Zig Ziglar

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36. “If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”

— Zig Ziglar

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37. “Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.”

— Brian Tracy

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38. “People don’t like to be sold, but they love to buy!”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

39. “Don’t wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.”

— Zig Ziglar

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40. “Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal.”

— Brian Tracy

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41. “There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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42. “Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

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43. “Motivation is like bathing. You’ve got to do it every single day.”

— Zig Ziglar

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44. “Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills.”

— Jim Rohn

45. “Selling is essentially transference of feeling.”

— Zig Ziglar

46. “The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don’t bother thinking about becoming a business owner.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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47. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”

— Zig Ziglar

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48. “Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.”

— Aldo Gucci

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49. “The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.”

— Philip Kotler

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50. “In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.”

— Brian Tracy

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