Salesman Quotes

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? (Woody Allen)

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

Dougray Scott

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

Emanuel Celler

White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, "We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!"

Michael Moore

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

John D. MacDonald

Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.

Robert Orben

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

Arthur Miller

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Allen Tate

Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

Paul Harding

Two U. S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman. (Rick Riordan)

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

Anthony Horowitz

How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn't bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened...the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

Bela Lugosi

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

Sebastian Junger

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

Early Wynn

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

Henry Kravis

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

Herb Ritts

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

Herb Ritts

The good lawyer is the great salesman. (Janet Reno)

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

James Cash Penney

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

Kevin O'Leary

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

Matthew Lesko

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

Matthew Lesko

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