--- title: "Why Do All Great Entrepreneurs Have Sales Experience? 20 Secrets You Can't Afford to Miss!" description: "This article reveals 20 reasons why sales experience is crucial for success, from building resilience to developing persuasion skills, and explains why most successful entrepreneurs started in sales." author: "New Distribution" publisher: "New Distribution" email: "zhaobo258@gmail.com" telephone: "+8615854817671" published: "2014-05-31" language: "en" canonical: "https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/why-do-all-great-entrepreneurs-have-sales-experience-20-secrets-you-can-b3974c4b/" markdown: "https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/why-do-all-great-entrepreneurs-have-sales-experience-20-secrets-you-can-b3974c4b.md" original_source: "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JBUVkIsNHA7VhoVka-ezlQ" translation: "https://xinjignxiao.com/zh/articles/%E4%B8%BA%E4%BB%80%E4%B9%88%E4%BC%9F%E5%A4%A7%E7%9A%84%E4%BC%81%E4%B8%9A%E5%AE%B6%E9%83%BD%E5%81%9A%E8%BF%87%E9%94%80%E5%94%AE-20%E4%B8%AA%E4%B8%8D%E8%83%BD%E8%AF%B4%E7%9A%84%E7%A7%98%E5%AF%86-b3974c4b.md" attribution: "New Distribution — https://xinjignxiao.com/en/articles/why-do-all-great-entrepreneurs-have-sales-experience-20-secrets-you-can-b3974c4b/" usage_policy: "https://xinjignxiao.com/ai-policy.txt" --- # Why Do All Great Entrepreneurs Have Sales Experience? 20 Secrets You Can't Afford to Miss! > This article reveals 20 reasons why sales experience is crucial for success, from building resilience to developing persuasion skills, and explains why most successful entrepreneurs started in sales. **Warm Tip: Click the blue text above “FMCG Distributor Professional Consulting” to learn more about marketing and distributor internal management.** 1. In this society, no one can guarantee your security—not the society, not the company, not your parents. Only sales (customers) can guarantee your livelihood. 2. In any enterprise or company, only sales generates profit; everything else is a cost. 3. Successful people grow through the pain of constant rejection. Sales gives you the opportunity to be rejected. 4. Eight out of ten people are unwilling to do sales because they don't want to "beg" others, they fear rejection, and they dislike the unstable work and income. Successful people do what others cannot, will not, or dare not do. 5. 80% of entrepreneurs in China started as salespeople. Sales is the必经之路 (necessary path) for starting a business. 6. Sales is a shortcut to rapid success and wealth. 7. A comfortable life easily makes people complacent,逃避现实 (escaping reality) and settling for mediocrity. Only sales is challenging enough to激发 (stimulate) your unlimited potential. 8. One person's success depends on others' success. Sales is the fastest way to expand your network. 9. Your speed of success depends on the quality of your friends. By choosing to associate with salespeople, you can be infected with a positive attitude, successful thinking, and an entrepreneurial drive. 10. This society is an era of mutual persuasion. Whoever has high persuasive power will have many followers and financial freedom. Sales is the practice of persuasion. 11. If there are 7 billion people in the world, salespeople account for 100% of them. Life is a constant sales process. Doing sales is hard, but not doing sales is harder, because you'll struggle for a lifetime. Do you want to struggle for a while or for a lifetime? 12. Society is gradually entering a service-oriented era. The higher your service awareness and service skills, the higher your quality. Sales is service because we constantly think about customer needs. 13. Sales is actually helping others. The value you gain is directly proportional to the number of people you help. 14. Everyone is a boss, a brand, and a product. Sales is about increasing your exposure—an opportunity to sell yourself. 15. Ordinary positions are about doing tasks; sales is about building a career. 16. Base salary is what the bottom of society earns; salespeople earn commissions. Your income comes from the value you create for the company. 17. A sales representative is the PR manager and image ambassador of a company. 18. Rejection is the mother of success; self-review is the father. Sales gives you the chance to be rejected and to constantly review yourself. 19. The fastest way to make money in the world is negotiation. Sales is about negotiating with customers, allowing you to feel that you've earned the customer's money while making them feel they've won. 20. In sales, you'll deeply feel the lack of knowledge, so you'll start learning: sales skills, persuasion, negotiation, mindset, telemarketing, customer service, interpersonal skills, time management, psychology, etc. These are exactly the skills necessary for success. -------------------------------------- **Like this article? Feel free to click the top right corner to share it to your Moments.** About us: WeChat Name: FMCG Distributor Professional Consulting Management Account Introduction: 20 years of FMCG distributor operation and management experience, professionally targeting distributor internal management. Click the "**Read Original**" below to enter our micro-community for interaction and Q&A. **Learning and exchange QQ group: 344257092** ----------------------------------------- --- ## Copyright and AI use This article is sourced from New Distribution. 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