11 Sales Quotes that You Probably Haven't Heard Before

So, because I wasn't able to find them on any of the big quotation search sites, I've decided to provide a home online for the following 11 sales quotes you probably haven't heard yet:



Theory is very helpful in business, but only when the business has already been settled.
  -- Italo Svevo

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow that chats pleasantly while he's over-charging you.
  -- Kin Hubbard

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give it to them. By the time you build it, they'll want something new.
  -- Steve Jobs

Half the time when men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
  -- E. W. Howe

Clarity trumps persuasion.
  -- Dr. Flint McGlaughlin

Knowledge without courage is sterile.
  -- Baltasar Gracian

Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away.
  -- Jean Giraudoux

Bring the best of your authentic self to every opportunity.
  -- John Jantsch

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage, however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
  -- Laurence Sterne

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
  -- Sam Walton

Good bargains empty pockets.
  -- German proverb



Please share any other obscure quotes about sales and/or marketing below.