Quotes About Salesman

#1. There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

#2. 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

#3. Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

Jerry Coleman

#4. Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

Newell Dwight Hillis

#5. You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.

T.I.

#6. My father worked two jobs. He assembled speakers during the day, and then he sold real estate at night and on weekends. And then he eventually, when he was in his mid-50s, became a full-time real estate salesman.

Terry J. Lundgren

#7. If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

Erich Fromm

#8. A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

David Suchet

#9. Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#10. The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore ... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

David Ogilvy

#11. 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

#12. My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel.

Katie Nolan

#13. The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it

Claude C. Hopkins

#14. I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

Aaron Tveit

#15. 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

#16. From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.

Brian Dennehy

#17. Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

Karl Kraus

#18. A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim - who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst.

Irfan Orga

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?

David Ogilvy

#22. How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".

Shubham Choudhary

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

#24. I lived through this, I needed to find a new fuckin' job. Janitor. Used car salesman. Guinea pig trainer.

Jessica Gadziala

#25. 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

#26. From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

Randeep Hooda

#27. How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to go to the gym today. There's always tomorrow. C'mon, my friend, it's just one plate of curly fries. Yes, just for you!' (My inner voice reminds me of a particularly aggressive rug salesman at a Turkish bazaar.)

A. J. Jacobs

#28. The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

Scott Bakula

#29. Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.

Penelope Lively

#30. What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?

Michael Z. Williamson

#31. The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.

M. Scott Peck

#32. At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

Courteney Cox

#33. 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

#34. The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too.

Ludwig Von Mises

#35. I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#36. The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

Shelley Berman

#37. 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

#38. If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

Gene Simmons

#39. When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

Edward Norton

#40. 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

#41. I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

Fred Durst

#42. 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

#43. I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

Mary Quant

#44. I think basically an actor is a salesman.

Paul Lynde

#45. I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

Blake Mycoskie

#46. Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

Andy Grove

#47. When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk.

Marisha Pessl

#48. I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

Mike Royer

#49. My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

Daniel Woodrell

#50. My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

Marilyn Manson

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

Barbara Corcoran

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

David Hyde Pierce

#56. I take a deep breath and put on my best smile. You could sell ice to Eskimos, my dad always says, and looking at this crowd, I think I'm going to have to be quite the salesman.

Alecia Whitaker

#57. Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

Deval Patrick

#58. 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

#59. A gumble bee is half gum ball, half bumble bee, and it's so chewy it stings. Makes me want to be a better lover and tractor salesman.

Jarod Kintz

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

Robert Morley

#61. A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

Danny DeVito

#62. Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

Bruce Coville

#63. The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

Stephen Covey

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

Herb Ritts

#65. Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter of all things elegant, holding court like a young Prince of Wales.

Marcel Proust

#66. You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

Scott Bakula

#67. My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Al Pacino

#68. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

David Foster Wallace

#69. If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman," you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin.

Richie Norton

#70. What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

Malcolm Forbes

#71. I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#72. I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

Nick Woodman

#73. If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

Ishmael Reed

#74. I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

P. J. O'Rourke

#75. Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.

Mooji

#76. The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Janet Reno

#77. A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.

Robert Henry Grant

#78. Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

Johnny Carson

#79. To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

Honore De Balzac

#80. The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting?

Joe Girard

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Jim Parrack

#85. The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Oscar Wilde

#86. Difficult to choose Ranbir Kapoor's best movie. He's truly a Rockstar, Salesman of the year and the one who steals the Tamasha. Deserves a Barfi!

Shikha Kaul

#87. I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

Kanye West

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

James Cash Penney

#89. It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and a Tory, and my mum's a social worker. So I can always see the benefits of both arguments.

James Corden

#90. Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

Patricia Marx

#91. Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

Martin Lewis Perl

#92. The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to "broadcast" negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that "like attracts like" and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers.

Napoleon Hill

#93. I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Frank Winfield Woolworth

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

Robert Orben

#95. Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.

T.I.

#96. Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Carey Williams

#97. I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#98. 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

#99. When getting help with money, whether it is insurance, real estate or investments you should always look for a person with the heart of a teacher, not the heart of a salesman.

Dave Ramsey

#100. Everyone is a salesman, and the product is each person. Personal branding is being conscious to the continual nature of selling yourself.

Jarod Kintz