Top 120 Sales Motivational Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them – preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.”

— Richard Branson

52. “When we change the input into our minds, we change the output into our lives.”

— Zig Ziglar

53. “Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins.”

— Ron Kaufman

54. “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”

— Jeff Bezos

55. “If you don’t change your approach, then you will never change your results!”

— Jim Rohn

56. “Telling is not selling. Only asking questions is selling.”

— Brian Tracy

57. “A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.”

— Zig Ziglar

58. “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”

— Jordan Belfort

59. “Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.”

— Jeff Bezos

60. “Consumers do not buy products. They buy product benefits.”

— David Ogilvy

61. “When you make people feel important, you’re going to be ahead of the game.”

— Zig Ziglar

62. “Obsess over customers.”

— Jeff Bezos

63. “When your image improves, your performance improves.”

— Zig Ziglar

64. “The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.”

— Jeff Bezos

65. “You can’t get anywhere flying under the radar.”

— Grant Cardone

66. “Will what I am about to do bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?”

— Zig Ziglar

67. “Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!”

— Brian Tracy

68. “Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.”

— Mark Cuban

69. “When you change your thinking, you change your actions. When you change your actions, you change your future.”

— Zig Ziglar

70. “One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.”

— Napoleon Hill

71. “The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.”

— Robin S. Sharma

72. “Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.”

— Mark Victor Hansen

73. “In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.”

— Og Mandino

74. “You can’t sell anything if you can’t tell anything.”

— Beth Comstock

75. “Excellence always sells.”

— Earl Nightingale

76. “Word of mouth is very powerful.”

— Jeff Bezos

77. “Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.”

— Napoleon Hill

78. “To be successful, you must be daring, be first and be different.”

— Ray Kroc

79. “The world is yours and everything in it, it’s out there- get on your grind and get it.”

— Young Jeezy

80. “Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.”

— Ray Kroc

81. “In a gold rush, sell shovels.”

— Unknown

82. “If you make meaning, you’ll make money.”

— Guy Kawasaki

83. “There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don’t unless you impose limits on yourself.”

— Grant Cardone

84. “After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers.”

— Konosuke Matsushita

85. “Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.”

— Anonymous

86. “Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.”

— Zig Ziglar

87. “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

— Ray Kroc

88. “It’s not creative unless it sells.”

— David Ogilvy

89. “Everything starts with the customer.”

— Lou Gerstner

90. “We get paid for bringing value to the market place.”

— Jim Rohn

91. “Treat objections as requests for further information.”

— Brian Tracy

92. “The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.”

— Philip Kotler

93. “Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.”

— Zig Ziglar

94. “Sell the benefit, not your company or the product. People buy results, not features.”

— Jay Abraham

95. “If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.”

— Scott Adams

96. “Leave every person you come into contact with the impression of increase.”

— Wallace D. Wattles

97. “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.”

— David Ogilvy

98. “A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others.”

— Zig Ziglar

99. “Success is the result of a clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence.”

— James Caan

100. “If you don’t listen to your customers, someone else will.”

— Sam Walton