For many, the holidays are a time of love, sharing, and celebration. For others, it’s a time of sales goals, missed bonuses, and grumpy, anxiety-ridden shoppers. Most “motivational quotes for selling” really suck. They’re all about lofty values that exceed the scope of the real task at hand, and utterly devoid of humor, which is half of what selling is about. We tried our darndest to come up with something funny, and failed. We’ll be back with something better in this category soon.

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
- Zig Ziglar

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it. But if you love what you are doing,and always put the customer first, success will be yours.
- Ray Kroc

For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.
- Zig Ziglar

And in the meantime, these are for the sales managers. Lay off, will ya?

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
- Stephen R. Covey

A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.
- R. H. Grant