The fun and fireworks over the holiday weekend may have left some of us with a “case of the Mondays,” but who says the excitement can’t continue? We’re only halfway through the year and halfway to our goals. As you can tell, we’re a half glass full kind of company. So grab a cup of coffee and the leftovers from the break room, pull up your pipeline report and make it happen!
Here’s some Monday motivation for your sales team to hit the ground running!
1. You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Robert Buxton
2. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi
3. 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
4. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips
5. Every brand isn’t for everybody, and everybody isn’t for every brand. – Liz Lange
6. The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse. – John Mason
7. Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion, and the determination to keep going anyway. – Nick Gleason
8. Most people think “selling” is the same as “talking”. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job. – Roy Bartell
9. You don’t close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise. – Patricia Fripp
10. If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. – Bob Hooey
11. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
12. Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can. – Richard Bach
13. If we learn from losing, we become winners in the end. – Anonymous
14. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison
15. Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. – Jeffrey Gitomer
16. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
17. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson
18. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
19. Some men see things as they are and ask why…I dream of things that never were and ask why not? – Robert Kennedy
20. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
21. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers
22. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. – Napoleon Hill
23. You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis. – Henry Ford
24. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
25. Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise. – Anonymous
26. Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. – Zig Ziglar
27. The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them. – Jill Konrath
28. Make a customer, not a sale. – Katherine Barchetti
29. Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert Schuller
30. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie
31. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. – Zig Ziglar
32. Integrity is what we do, what we say and what we say we do. – Don Galer
33. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
34. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. – Benjamin Franklin
35. Fear is the destroyer of dreams and the killer of ambitions. – Jeffrey Benjamin
36. The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say. – Tom Freese
37. Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude. – Ralph Marston
38. Today is always the most productive day of your week. – Mark Hunter
39. Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favour. – Brian Tracy
40. For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough. – Zig Ziglar
41. Try not to become a person of success, but try to become a person of value. – Albert Einstein
42. Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness. – Earl Nightingale
43. Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on. – Don Cooper
44. If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. – Zig Ziglar
45. Prospecting – Find the man with the problem. – Ben Friedman
46. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle
47. The way you position yourself at the beginning of a relationship has profound impact on where you end up. – Ron Karr
48. It’s easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever. – Zig Ziglar
49. A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. – Wilson Mizner
50. Goals aren’t enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. – Ben Feldman
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Jason Stegent is the Founder & President of ElasticSolutions. Email him @ jstegent@elasticroi.com