Quotes on Sales Leadership

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.