At our current rate of sales, that’s about 600,000 hybrids in the U.S.. To achieve that goal, we will have to look at offering hybrid power systems in virtually all of our vehicles, including trucks.

sales rates are going to be a little bit less important. ”¡ What’s really important is how we’re setting up for the next two, three, four years.

Excluding fleet, retail sales of GM and Ford were down 7% and 6, respectively.

We’ll see after two months how sales go before revising the forecast.

When we crunch numbers for 1999, we may see a corresponding increase between sales and piracy in that region that would take those numbers back up again.

You don’t need batteries for an introduction. Buy my Networking in a Box today and see for yourself. (Handshakes sold separately.)

Sales weakened as the month went along. I think we ‘ re heading for a September/October slump as the huge effects of the employee-discount sales wear off, and you get into the payback period.

I sell yawns. So when you see me yawning, and you then yawn, just know that’s me giving you a free sample of my product.

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn’t you would already possess it, would you not?

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.

You don’t learn through sales calls, it’s not customer validation.

As Omron Corp. aims to reach 750 billion yen in consolidated sales in fiscal 2007, we want to contribute 10 percent of the total.

Had it not been for the impressive January same-store sales reports, decent forward-looking statements and the big drop in energy prices, the market drop would have been far worse. With the understanding that we needed...

For the next two weeks, the weekly retail sales will be important in light of the warmer weather, which should induce solid sales. Anything less than solid sales would be a red flag, but we...

I think 2000 will be defined by a flattish level of sales and a better product mix, … I think that better product mix will feed through to better earnings for most of the major...

If coffee is for closers, gold is for prospectors.

You can take and nail two sticks together like they’ve never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it.

One who is hungry for growth, doesn’t requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity…

Anytime you’re tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you’re doing and upserve instead.

Mark my words. Perception is reality and how someone perceives you is their reality.

Sales is the art of giving people what they don’t know they want, when they don’t think they’ll need it, at a price they don’t think they can afford.

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.

Retail sales were significantly healthier than expected in September and August’s sales were revised up, going a long way to killing off already fading hopes of a November interest rate cut.

I want to start a business making mint-flavored sunshine that comes in a can half full of meow-free rainbows. (Leprechauns sold separately.)

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf,...

When you plan for $3 billion in sales and you do $2.4 billion, you have a cost problem,

It’s not as much about sales as it is about how you feel doing it. If I start hating doing this and it makes me miserable, I wont do it anymore. This is not our...

Although we are coming out of deflation, it is still going to be difficult for retailers to boost their sales.

Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

I make ridiculous like I make damn sure nobody sees me when I do. I make it by hand and then I sell it on Etsy. Buy local.

A real salesman knows how to engage Anyone Anywhere Anytime in a sensible conversation.

The best way to sell a car is to first try to sell them an airplane, then a horse, and then finally bring up the newest model automobile you have for sale.

Falling has become far more terrifying to me than rising.

No one ever reached the top of a mountain by digging underneath it.

It has been my experience that around half of those offering a product or service, in every line of business, are quite utterly useless. Some of them actually bordering on criminal. The remainder are split...

The October sales are another indication that the industry is on track to achieve our forecast of 4.7 percent growth in the fourth quarter.

If I were a shovel salesman, my biggest customers would be murderers. Oh, and spurned lovers trying to bury the past.

It’s increased sales of my book probably at least three-fold, maybe more,

Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a...

Will we sell out every game? No. Are we going to be happy with 800,000 in ticket sales? Absolutely.

Sales of 16 million now looks a lot less profitable than 16 million did a few years ago,

Because your pitch could use some work.

A brick could be used to increase your annual sales. But before you can sell, you’ve got to buy. For just $9.99 I’ll show you how a common brick can transform you into an uncommon...

The only people who don’t need elevator pitches are elevator salesmen. I once tried to sell an elevator to a man who owned a one-story building. He didn’t buy from me, but he did sell...

We’re off to a booming start and everybody’s going to be raising their sales forecasts for the year.

I had a dream about you. I was a used car salesman, and you were in the market for a new horse. I suggested we both compromise, and meet in the middle—like the year 1950.

Don’t allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

Well, at the risk of sounding a bit harsh…I think we can safely say that your recent successes could have just as easily been achieved by a mute monkey in a tiny business suit, holding...

No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don’t even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure...