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In the world of selling, either you're searching for new prospects or you're on the way out. The following quotations remind us that if you're a salesperson, prospecting doesn't represent the life and death of your sales career . . . it's more important than that.

The Importance of Prospecting for New Customers…

"New prospects are the lifeblood of any business and the key to success in selling."
J. R. Freeman

"Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either."
Sir Archibald McIndoe

"A growable is a customer who you are not currently growing even though you have the capability to do so."
Mack Hanan & Peter Karp

"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."
Theodore Leavitt

"Make a customer, not a sale."
Katherine Barchetti

On the Need for a Steady Stream of New Customers

"It is the customer only who creates a profit. Everything "inside" a business is only a cost center."
Peter Drucker

"A salesman must understand the law of customer attrition: customers inevitably drop off the books. So the time to replace lost business is before it is lost."
George M. Kahn

"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

"Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no business."
Michael LeBoeuf

"Unless you’re prospecting for new customers, you’re presiding over a declining sales career."
J. R. Freeman

This page was written and compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.

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