29 Great Quotes that All Real Estate Sales Professionals Should Memorize
How long do parents give their babies to learn to walk? One week? One month? One year? Most of the time, parents give their children however long the child needs in order to succeed. In the same way, you need to give yourself and those around you permission to keep trying until you succeed. We tend to be short on patience when it comes to succeeding at something. But it’s not the speed at which you accomplish a thing that makes you successful. Success is pushing past obstacles and through challenges. It’s persisting until you reach your goal.
I know we don’t like to admit it, but we need to remind ourselves (some of us more frequently than others) that success is not an event. It is a habit. So I want to share with you 29 of my all-time favorite affirmations and quotes on sales and success.
- “I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.” – Tom Hopkins
- “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
- “Don’t wish things were easier. Wish you were better.” –Jim Rohn
- “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.” – Bruce Lee
- “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee
- “Your only real limitation is the one you accept and set up in your own mind.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman – not the attitude of the prospect. – W. Clement Stone
- “Profits are better than wages.” – Jim Rohn
- “The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.” – Henry Ford
- “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
- “It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.” – Zig Ziglar
- “I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.” –Napoleon Hill
- “You must act as if it is impossible to fail.” – Ashanti proverb
- “Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling – to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems.” – Mark Cuban
- “In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.” – Barbara Corcoran
- “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran
- “I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.” – Jay-Z
- “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.” – Les Brown
- “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” – Confucius
- “Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.” – James Allen
- “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing; that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.” – Henry A. Kissinger
- “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
- “Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.” – Michael Schudson
- “If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.” –Daymond John
