40 Best Motivational Quotes to Improve Sales

It is essential to continually motivate and provide your sales teams with a consistent funnel of inspiration. One way that many managers, leaders, HR professionals and great sales talents provide motivation is through motivational quotes. Motivational sales quotes are a perfect way in which employees working in sales can become motivated, reinforced and further driven towards business function success.

Likewise, provided throughout this blog are the best motivational quotes to improve sales. An extremely well picked out list that has been utilised by us at EmployeeConnect and many around the world to effectively drive motivation throughout sales teams.

1. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

2. “Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.” – Jeffrey Gitomer

3. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

4. “Sales is an outcome, not a goal. It’s a function of doing numerous things right, starting from the moment you target a potential prospect until you finalize the deal.” – Jill Konrath

5. “If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.” – Bob Hooey

6. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

7. “Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

8. “Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” – Omar Periu

9. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

10. “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her to solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” – Brian Tracy

11. “It’s not about having the right opportunities. It’s about handling the opportunities right.” – Mark Hunter

12. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

13. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

14. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” – Aristotle

15. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs

16. “It’s not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts.” – Mother Teresa

17. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

18. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

19. “Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” – Norman Ralph Augustine

20. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

21. “I never lose. I either win or learn.” – Nelson Mandela

22. “You don’t need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.” – Harvey Mackay

23. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs

24. “A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand

25. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

26. “The new reality is that sales and marketing are continuously and increasingly integrated. Marketing needs to know more about sales, sales needs to know more about marketing, and we all need to know more about our customers.” – Jill Rowley

27. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh

28. “Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.” – Dan Waldschmidt 

29. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

30. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

31. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

32. “Become the person who would attract the results you seek.” – Jim Cathcart

33. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey

34. “Always Do Your Best. What You Plant Now, Will Harvest Later.” – Og Mandino 

35. “How you sell matters. What your process is matters. But how your customers feel when they engage with you matters more.” – Tiffani Bova

36. “Sales is not about selling anymore, but about building trust and educating.” – Siva Devaki

37. “Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

38. “You need to be able to paint a picture in a conversation. The lost part of sales is the storytelling side.” – Richard Harris

39. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

40. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Saint Francis