Top 100 Salesman's Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.
Mickey Duff
#6. A real salesman knows how to engage Anyone Anywhere Anytime in a sensible conversation.
Honeya
#7. A salesman is an it that stinks to please
but whether to please itself or someone else
makes no more difference than if it sells
hate condoms education snakeoil vac
uumcleaners terror strawberries democ
ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair
E. E. Cummings
#8. I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."
Betty White
#9. We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.
Shepard Smith
#10. My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
Al Franken
#11. Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone
#12. 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
#13. Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.
Claude C. Hopkins
#14. I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
Mike Nichols
#15. And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what? ... to talk.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")
Eudora Welty
#16. Sharon shook her head. "He's never come here," she said. "And besides, he was in Boston that night at some convention." "He's a salesman?" asked Kinderman. "A lawyer.
William Peter Blatty
#17. 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
#18. Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
Bela Lugosi
#19. I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
Marc Guggenheim
#20. I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
Martin Kippenberger
#21. Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.
Damien Fahey
#22. It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman.
Chris Murray
#23. My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
Al Franken
#24. Oh, certainly, 'The Wings of Death' is not amusing," ventured Mrs. Leveret, whose manner of putting forth an opinion was like that of an obliging salesman with a variety of other styles to submit if his first selection does not suit.
Edith Wharton
#25. Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.
Les Wexner
#26. I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.
Ashton Kutcher
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#34. Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
Carey Williams
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
Al Franken
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Certainly it's a business and you've got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you've got two guys doing the same thing, you don't need one of them.
Jerry Lawler
#45. Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos. What's weird is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Andy Warhol makes perfect sense.
Chuck Palahniuk
#46. One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent.
Fannie Hurst
#47. No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.
Ray Kroc
#48. When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
Zig Ziglar
#49. Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.
H.L. Mencken
#50. He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")
Eudora Welty
#51. When Dradin stopped running he found himself on the fringe of the religious quarter, next to an emaciated macadamia salesman who cracked jokes like nuts.
Jeff VanderMeer
#52. Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
Arthur Miller
#53. I'd shown interest, and showing interest in Bali means that the salesman is most likely going to walk away with your money.
S.A. Tawks
#54. He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and he wasn't about to be impressed with some upstart of a toaster salesman who drove a Bonneville.
Janet Evanovich
#55. Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.
Merv Griffin
#56. I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
Jason Reitman
#57. A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home.
Julie Ann Dawson
#58. Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.
Tibor Kalman
#59. I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Shay Carl
#60. If you're a car salesman, and someone says "This is a terrible car, I'm not buying it," it doesn't mean they hate you. They just don't like your product. I think that's a mistake a lot of people in show business make.. they're so tied to their act they take everything personally.
Jay Leno
#61. A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.
John Hodgman
#62. Where may one breathe?" demands one Continental Macaroni, in a yellow waistcoat, " - in New-York, Taverns have rooms where Smoke is prohibited." "Tho' clearly," replies the itinerant Stove-Salesman Mr. Whitpot, drawing vigorously at his Pipe, "what's needed is a No-Idiots Area.
Thomas Pynchon
#63. 'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.
Ken Stott
#64. Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.
Michael Delaware
#65. I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
Vincent Van Gogh
#66. Of all the advice I can give someone...this is the most important: Never mess with a coconut salesman. A sharp machete is always at hand.
Dean MacAllister
#67. He suddenly felt tremendously happy. He could always go back to being a shepherd. He could always become a crystal salesman again.
Paulo Coelho
#68. Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.
Tony Evans
#69. 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
#70. You're good salesman,
if you make people buy
product they don't need.
Toba Beta
#71. 'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
John Lahr
#72. 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
#73. The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's mind to let him put his hand and happily pull the money and give it to you
Hisham Fawzi
#74. My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#75. 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
#76. At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.
Tahir Shah
#77. TeleCaller's (cold calling) job is similar to sniper's, wait patiently for the Right Party Connect/Target and make no mistake.
Honeya
#78. Wes held my hand in front of Dad, who played it real easy, like I had boys around all the time. JoAnn said I was lucky, and she should know. Her father specialized in fear, being a life insurance salesman, and could bring a boy to his knees.
Joan Bauer
#79. 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
#80. I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
Charles Kimbrough
#81. The bell seemed to have set off an
alarm in my brain, and I glimpsed at the mysterious envelope on my desk.
There was another item I should've gotten from my single-shoe salesman.
A.E.H. Veenman
#82. Soulful Salesman (definition); "One who demonstrates expressive, sensitive, eloquent, moving, profound, meaningful, and heartfelt concern for his/her clients and customers.
Ronald Solberg
#83. The Gong lived in the Pit. It made a loud, brassy "nnnnnnngggggggggg" that set everyone's teeth on edge. Any deal over 50K per annum, the salesman got to take a whack at it, so that the whole company would know he'd landed a big fish.
Lori Berhon
#84. When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.
Rick Astley
#85. After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.
Kate Bush
#86. You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.
Honeya
#87. Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius - and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.
Douglas Preston
#88. I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#89. I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
Hunter S. Thompson
#90. Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.
Elizabeth McCracken
#91. We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.
Napoleon Hill
#92. Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Elia Kazan
#93. I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
Early Wynn
#94. I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."
"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
Kurt Vonnegut
#95. I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.
Freedy Johnston
#96. I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
Ian Frazier
#97. Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.
William Wrigley Jr.
#98. Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.
Charles M. Schwab
#99. Don't pitch or shove your products down people's throat. Don't be a greasy salesman. Listen to your customer.
Timi Nadela
#100. I would like to express how I regard salespeople in general. I consider they embody a unified and diverse aggregate of the most able individuals in society and its workplace. In any economy, they are among the most valuable to its continued existence. They alone move the economy of a nation.
Michael Delaware
