My book could have been released before the election, … It would have been driven by partisan sales.

I design, manufacture, distribute, and sell elevator buttons. I specialize in the fourth floor. And I don’t mean to brag, but I’m such a good salesman that I could sell one of my fourth-floor elevator...

I hate cold-calling. I like my phone calls warm, like meatloaf.

You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back...

Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will...

No, I’m afraid your overconfidence, as with most young men who dream of becoming successful, can quite quickly become the Achilles’ heel of your continued mediocrity

Sales is a hard way to make money, trying to convince people to willingly pay you for a product or service. I prefer making money the old-fashioned way, by extortion, like the government does.

Sales success is not about convincing people to buy a product or service they don’t want. It’s about engaging with people who are interested and then helping them make the right decision. That’s the key...

We had expected sales to have picked up in February after falling on month the preceding month, but this hasn’t happened, which means that domestic consumption could be in trouble.

A couple years ago our online sales was male-dominated. Now women account for 40 percent of Web sales overall, and are placing 20 percent of our Valentine’s orders.

The swift industry-wide decline in PC sales will result in Apple’s first non-profitable quarter in three years, … We’re not happy about it, and plan to return to sustained profitability next quarter. We are committed...

Advertising is legalized lying.

The starting point for ‘discounts’ may be the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP), an arbitrarily high price that no one will ever pay. By crossing out the high MSRP, retailers are handing shoppers a psychological...

Is that a ziggurat in your pocket or are you just Mesopotamia? You should know I sell happy-to-see-me’s & bananas individually or by the pocketful.

I value your friendship. I value it at one billion dollars. We should sell it.

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

The vast majority of the populace would never think of setting themselves any deadlines for the achievement of their dreams. They may have a vague notion they will get older and that one day they...

Now you learn about the greatest tool available to any salesman. I’m going to give you an introduction into something that will help customers recognise the value of your offer all by themselves.

I had a dream about you. You were Mickey Mantle, and I was a fireplace without a mantle. I didn’t like baseball, so I kept telling you that you could do something productive with your...

OK, how about Ralph Isaac Papov?

Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One – Chapter: Gun To Your Head

All our businesses continued to grow strongly, with double-digit year-on-year percentage sales gains across the board.

We are seeing decent physical demand on pullbacks. Lower central banks sales are also boosting prices.

That sales number is just based on in-bound calls, so that tells you that there was a great deal of excitement after the Opener.

In what is traditionally a clearance month, sales were up in our principal clothing categories, with women’s ready to wear, children’s and men’s apparel all reporting sales gains, … Outerwear finally benefited from winter’s late...

I have a lot of love to give, because free samples are the best way to encourage sales.

There is something about sales that is universal;Out of ten at’ least one says YES… try it anywhere… will work!

The best salespeople are not salespeople, they’re people who’ve not only bought the product, but also bought into the idea of the company and the brand.

I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.

You know, I have never met a young man who recognises the true value in this exercise, and yet I have met hundreds of old men who wished someone had shared it with them in...

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Our forecast released in November calls fourth-quarter sales to be 4.7 percent higher than the third quarter, and with two months of data now in, we are on target to meet that projection.

The pace of sales has started to show signs of softness as foot traffic at sales offices, unit reservations and the number of contracts are slowing. Experience, location and branding will be the key to...

The sales produce virtually all of our net, … we just try to break even on the races.

Ticket sales-wise, we obviously have proven ourselves. A lot is going to depend on if the NCAA is happy with how we perform this weekend. Do they like the building? Do we meet all the...

Every person has the inherent right to “self-proclaim”–to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

The full benefit of the 18 million vehicle sales pace a year ago was never really achieved because of severe negative pricing over last couple of years. What’s going to happen as auto demand decline...

All the time and effort put into networking can be all for naught if there is no follow-through. The same goes for sales. And leadership. And … well, everything.

A lollygagger is a person choking on a lollipop. That works perfectly, because I sell Heimlich Maneuvers in a variety of flavors.

The fleet sales that inflated the January results will probably diminish for GM, Ford and Chrysler. There’s three reasons why their market-share has declined: product, product and product.

What you see is what you get.” Of course, I say it silently, so people probably don’t hear me.

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn’t happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain

So you can speak, can you? Well, that’s going to stand you out from the rest of the crowd, isn’t it? No. Sorry, my boy. The ability to speak does not a salesman make

Why spend ten dollars to buy one item that does two things, when for five dollars a piece I can sell you two items that each does one thing?

I’d like to see higher sales on the year and get sales back up. I can’t wait to get started.

Yields, especially on the long end, have been dogging the market in recent weeks. And retail sales down more than expected shows enough of a slowing to question whether or not the Fed needs to...

By February, inventory was half of what it should have been, and that choked off sales in February and March.

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.

I call 2005 the year of large transactions and portfolio sales.