We are pleased that sales in core businesses such as lawn and garden, tools and apparel have shown signs of strengthening, especially considering the difficult economic environment,

At the end of the day, taking 50% off a $250 dress still means walking out of the store $125 poorer.

Cancel tomorrow! Who do you think you are, God?

My cat likes to wake me up by licking my armpit. Never before have I had such a romantic alarm clock. It’s true, man, I should have been born Harry Truman. He could have been...

Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about...

You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your...

Obvious? Possibly. Sometimes, common sense is only obvious once you have been shown it to be so. Only after a shortcut has been revealed is it an obvious time saver. Before that, it had remained...

It appears that significant discounting is still needed to boost sales volumes.

I should open up a dry cleaners/pizza parlor. Extra Stain Sauce will be free, but removing it out of your clothes will cost you.

By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which result in closed sales 50, 67 and 70 percent of the time, respectively.

We will not unveil the tickets sales scheme until early next year.

I didn’t feel like starting out on a weekly basis as a sales clerk.

They will continue to place orders as they have pared down some inventories, helped by good sales in the last quarter.

Today, the catalyst in technology was the report that PC sales in the second quarter slowed. The PC sector feeds into the semiconductor sector, which feeds into other parts of technology.

I used to sell hellos by the wave until I found out Dark Jar Tin Zoo was reselling them on eBay as goodbyes. Now I’m a yawn distributor.

Sell (service or product) as if you are buying it, convince yourself first that, it is worth buying..It is very simple; u ‘cannot’ convince someone till the time you’re not convinced

Things I’ve learned the hard way: #1) When you’re making a door-to-door sales pitch, make sure your shorts aren’t so short that your dick dangles out of them.

Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I strolled aimlessly through the years? Was I expecting my whole life to be some form of lucky...

It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.

I will ask questions that are so wide and open they will feel the need to speak for a week. Then from the information that they give to me, I will mould solutions designed specifically...

We all know that products don’t drive sales—people do. We buy the person, not the service.

We’re seeing it already. If you look at Wal-Mart’s numbers and strip out the effect of grocery-store sales, there are signs of stress behind the scenes there. What many of us are concluding here is...

The sales produce virtually all of our net,

January sales are looking excellent.

It’s unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

If we exclude the $2 billion in proceeds from asset sales, it appears that GM burned through approximately $1.2 billion in cash in the quarter.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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...

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...

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.