114 Sales Leadership Quotes for Guiding Your Team to Success

This set of sales leadership quotes offer advice to follow for strategy and planning, teamwork and culture, goals and forecasting, and more.


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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Eckhart Tolle

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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

Mike Tyson

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Success is never owned; it is only rented – and the rent is due every day.

Rory Vaden

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

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To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.

Harvey Mackay

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Never ever, ever stop following up.

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

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To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want.

Charles T. Munger

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People are starving for decisiveness. If you give it to them, you will rule the world.

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The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

Eckhart Tolle

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The universe will always test your resolve.

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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

John Lennon

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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Stephen King

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The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra

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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Bruce Lee

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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash

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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Ralph Marston

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Tony Robbins

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Pressure is a privilege.

Billie Jean King

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Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

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Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Robert Fulghum

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Listen more then you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Richard Branson

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Do something everyday that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

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Make a customer, not a sale.

Katherine Barchetti

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Fortunately or unfortunately you take yourself with you wherever you go.

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Some soldiers want to fight. They are the crazy ones. Other soldiers don't want to fight but go and fight regardless. They are the courageous ones. And I like the fact that you need to be afraid to have courage.

George St. Pierre

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It's a great question to ask yourself how to impact a billion people over next decade. But an even better one to ask yourself how to impact the life of one person within the next hour.

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You can learn more from an hour silence than a year of reading books.

Matthew Kelly

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I hated every minute of training, but I thought to myself, 'Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Muhammad Ali

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Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

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Discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.

Jim Rohn

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At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable?

Conor McGregor

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I'm not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Stephen Covey

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

John Dewey

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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

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More startups die of indigestion than starvation. Focus wins. Doing too many things fails.

Bill Gurley ‏

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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Christopher Morcom

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Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination — and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

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Hustle until your haters ask if you're hiring.

Steve Maraboli

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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

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Fear is your road sign to growth and success.

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil

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Choose your hard.

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Do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

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I don't have dreams, I have goals.

Harvey Specter

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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Amelia Earhart

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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Voltaire

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Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being.

Kevin Kruse

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Losers focus on winners and winners focus on winning.

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Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Jim Rohn

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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

Teddy Roosevelt

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Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Fred Rogers

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney

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Be impatient with your action and patient with the results.

Unknown

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Action is the foundational key to all success.

Pablo Picasso

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Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.

Unknown

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Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

David Deida

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Robert H. Schuller

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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

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The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

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Expect the yes. Embrace the no. That's how you master the close!

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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

John le Carre

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A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them.

Publius Syrus

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BREATHE, MOTHERFUCKER.

Wim Hof

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Your job in sales is to create moments of truth!

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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

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You are the truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

Rumi

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Beverly Sills

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis

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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Albert Einstein

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Being busy is a form of laziness

Unknown

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When you feel like quitting: think about why you started.

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

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I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard.

Estée Lauder

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No man is free who is not master of himself.

Epictetus

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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Aristotle

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Always begin with the end in mind.

Dr. Stephen R. Covey

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We're not here to take part, we're here to take over.

Conor McGregor

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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Frank Ocean

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn

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You don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training.

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I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.

Conor McGregor

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We tend to judge others by their behavior, and ourselves by our intentions.

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

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Don’t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet.

St. Augustine

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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

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Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Albert Einstein

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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.

Rick Pitino

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If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.

African Proverb

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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

George R.R. Martin

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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Lao Tzu

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Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Theodore Roosevelt

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You are not here to do a good job. You are here to make a difference.

Frank Garcia

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

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When people give me all these great compliments, I thank them, but still go back to my room and practice.

B.B. King

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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell

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Better to get up and dance badly than to sit and watch the dancing.

Michael Lipsey

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

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Don't wish for it, work for it.

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The opposite of courage used to be cowardice, today the opposite of courage is conformity.

Rickson Gracie

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The fastest way to be smart is through the hallway of stupid.

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Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

Nancy Willard

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You learn more from getting your butt kicked than from getting it kissed.

Tom Hanks

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You can learn more in 5 minutes of self study than in 5 years of studying the world.

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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

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People don't decide their future they decide their habits and their habits decide their future.

F.M. Alexander

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Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Bud Fox

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Mary Kay Ash

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Self-control is more indispensable than gunpowder.

Henry Morton Stanley

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

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While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Greatness is achieved by doing the common things with uncommon levels of discipline.

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There is no such thing as information overload. Only filter failure.

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Inches make champions.

Vince Lombardi

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

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All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou

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