We have put together a number of famous sales quotes that you can use to learn or for use in your office, own newsletters, e-zines or company intranet. Feel free to use them with our compliments. We have categorised the articles into different areas. Simply click on the link.

• Goal Setting & Getting organised
• Leadership
• Marketing
• Motivation
• Self Improvement

"Chance favors only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) French chemist & biologist (Download PDF format)

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present." - Donald Trump (June 14, 1946 - ) American real estate developer (Download PDF format)

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist, inventor (Download PDF format)

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our minds what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose..." - Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States
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"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister (Download PDF format)

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." - Pablo Picasso (Download PDF format)

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Leadership

"Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion, and humility." - John McCain (1936 - ) U.S. Senator, Vietnam veteran (Download PDF format)

"There has never been a sports team that has successfully operated without a coach, no matter how brilliant the players." - David Bentley, Naked Leadership (Download PDF format)

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) sixth President of the United States (Download PDF format)

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby (1937 - ) American comedian, actor, producer, father of five (Download PDF format)

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Marketing

Adrian's Quote of the Week
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel (1883-1971) French fashion designer & businesswoman introduced pants for women (Download PDF format)

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Motivation

"Activity is contagious." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American writer and activist (Download PDF format)

"Luck? I've never banked on it... Luck to me is something else: hard work and realising what is opportunity and what isn't." - Lucille Ball (1911-1989) American comedienne and actress (Download PDF format)

"The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard." - Helen Gurley Brown (1922 -) American writer & editor of Cosmopolitan magazine (Download PDF format)

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost (1874-1963) American writer & poet (Download PDF format)

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer, scientist & printer (Download PDF format)

"Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer (Download PDF format)

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully (1892-1964) American newspaper columnist (Download PDF format)

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle (1908-2002) American comedian & actor (Download PDF format)

"Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister during WWII (Download PDF format)

"The distance isn't important; it is only the first step that is difficult." - Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, the Marquise du Deffand (1697-1780) French woman of letters, patron of the arts (Download PDF format)

"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure." - Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) American clergyman, author (Download PDF format)

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." - Colin L. Powell (1937 - ) former U.S. Secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Download PDF format)

"One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have wholehearted enthusiasm." - Hannah Senesh (1921-1944) Hungarian-Jewish soldier and rescue-mission volunteer in WWII (Download PDF format)

"Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist & educator (Download PDF format)

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett (1931 - ) American stock market investor CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (Download PDF format)

"I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy" - Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Download PDF format)

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney (1901-1966) American film producer. (Download PDF format)

"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win." - Nadia Comaneci (1961 - ) Romanian Olympian, first gymnast to score a 'Perfect 10' scored seven '10s' at the 1976 Olympics. (Download PDF format)

"Stop complaining about what you're not getting, and start creating what you want." - Dr. Phil McGraw ( 1950 - ) American psychologist, TV host (Download PDF format)

"You can only stumble if you're moving" - Roberto Goizueta (1931-1997) Cuban-American businessman, former CEO of Coca-Cola Co. (Download PDF format)

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." - Dr. Robert Schuller (1926 - ) American minister (Download PDF format)

"The future depends on what we do in the present." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian political and spiritual leader (Download PDF format)

"Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison (1847-1931) inventor, salesman frequently worked more than 40 hours straight (Download PDF format)

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter (Download PDF format)

"Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist, inventor (Download PDF format)

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively." - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) U.N. diplomat, humanitarian, U.S. First Lady mother of six (Download PDF format)

"Everyone lives by selling something." - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish writer (Download PDF format)

"The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do." - Donald Trump (1946 - ) American real estate developer (Download PDF format)

"Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more" - James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) American clergyman and author (Download PDF format)

Self Improvement

"Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough." - Henry Royce (1863-1933) English industrialist, co-founder of Rolls-Royce (Download PDF format)

"If you work just for the 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." - Ray Kroc (1902-1984) founder of McDonald's Corporation (Download PDF format)

"The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear." - Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter first career: art salesman (Download PDF format)

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ) TV host and producer, publisher, philanthropist (Download PDF format)

"My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play." - Tiger Woods (1975 - ) American golf champion (Download PDF format)

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos (1882-1939) French literary critic (Download PDF format)

"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (3BC-65AD) Roman philosopher and statesman(Download PDF format)

"I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position." - Serena Williams (1981 - ) American tennis champion (Download PDF format)

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