47 Quotes For Sales Effectiveness

In the fast-paced world of sales, inspiration and motivation can be crucial for achieving consistent success. Whether you're a seasoned sales professional or just starting out, having a repertoire of insightful quotes can provide the encouragement and perspective needed to tackle daily challenges. In this curated collection, we've gathered 47 of the most powerful and thought-provoking quotes that have been proven to enhance sales effectiveness. These words of wisdom come from renowned leaders, authors, and successful salespeople who understand the intricacies of the sales process. Dive in and let these quotes inspire your journey toward greater success and achievement in the sales arena.

1. “A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.” - Stan Slap

2. “Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.” - Stan Slap

3. “What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.” - Stan Slap

4. “Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.” - Stan Slap

5. “Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.” - Stan Slap

6. “Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.” - Stan Slap

7. “Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.” - Stan Slap

8. “The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.” - Stan Slap

9. “The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.” - Stan Slap

10. “Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.” - Stan Slap

11. “When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.” - Stan Slap

12. “What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.” - Stan Slap

13. “Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.” - Stan Slap

14. “The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.” - Stan Slap

15. “When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.” - Stan Slap

16. “Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.” - Stan Slap

17. “You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.” - Stan Slap

18. “The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.” - Stan Slap

19. “You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.” - Stan Slap

20. “Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.” - Stan Slap

21. “The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.” - Stan Slap

22. “There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.” - Stan Slap

23. “The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?” - Stan Slap

24. “Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.” - Stan Slap

25. “Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.” - Stan Slap

26. “Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?” - Stan Slap

27. “Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?” - Stan Slap

28. “The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.” - Stan Slap

29. “The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.” - Stan Slap

30. “To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.” - Stan Slap

31. “Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.” - Stan Slap

32. “Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.” - Stan Slap

33. “Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.” - Stan Slap

34. “Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.” - Stan Slap

35. “Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.” - Stan Slap

36. “Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.” - Stan Slap

37. “Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.” - Stan Slap

38. “Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.” - Stan Slap

39. “When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.” - Stan Slap

40. “When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.” - Stan Slap

41. “True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.” - Stan Slap

42. “Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.” - Stan Slap

43. “A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.” - Stan Slap

44. “Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.” - Stan Slap

45. “Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.” - Stan Slap

46. “What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.” - Stan Slap

47. “It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.” - Stan Slap