Quotes About Good Salesman

#1. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. (This is not actually true. The raid to Hell is paved with frozen door-to-door salesman. On weekends, many of the younger demons go ice skating down it.)

Terry Pratchett

#2. You're good salesman,
if you make people buy
product they don't need.

Toba Beta

#3. I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

Kate McKinnon

#4. But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

Moby

#5. It's simply not relevant to my role as an advocate, and even to begin to think along those lines would hamper me in the execution of my duties.

Jonathan Kellerman

#6. 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

#7. Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

#8. The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

Ray Wise

#9. She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.

Caroline Blackwood

#10. If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie

#11. Some salesmen think that selling is like eating - to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook - he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.

George Horace Lorimer

#12. It was late afternoon. This time tomorrow he would be somewhere on a good graveled road, driving his car past things that happened to people, quicker than their happening.
("Death of a Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#13. Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower.

Richard Jeni

#14. I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

Brian Eno

#15. When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

Marc Andreesen

#16. So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

Nick Bantock

#17. Because you're such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they're going to use you as a salesman. If you're going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

Randy Pausch

#18. As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader.

Kathryn Jean Lopez

#19. The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Janet Reno

#20. I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

Benicio Del Toro

#21. The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.

Bono

#22. I am not ashamed that I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman, only that I was a *good* vacuum-cleaner salesman.

Robert Morley