Quotes about sales

Do you connect to your customers by asking questions and genuinely listening to the answers? And if so, do you take the extra step to connect those customers to expertly personalized solutions? Do you take time to drastically adjust your message to meet each individual customer’s needs?

Darren Hardy

By all means, fire the customers who aren’t worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you’ve just started the firing process.

Seth Godin

By being customer-focused instead of retail-focused, or factory-focused, a manufacturer or merchant can widely increase its offerings, thus increasing share of wallet.

Seth Godin

Seek out influencers, those who are connected to broader networks of potential customers.

Darren Hardy

At the end of the day in business, it’s not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

Guy Kawasaki

Every time Wal-Mart spends one dollar foolishly, it comes right out of our customers’ pockets. Every time we save them a dollar, that puts us one more step ahead of the competition-which is where we always plan to be.

Sam Walton

Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That’s the acid test.

Guy Kawasaki

Anything those customers experience from their interaction with a company should be considered part of that company’s product.

Eric Ries

As far as investors and customers are concerned, I make it a point to answer each and every piece of mail that comes to me.

Chanda Kochhar

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It’s really that easy – and that’s what I do.

Tim Ferriss