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Quotes About Salesman

A very rich travelling salesman, true. But still a salesman. A hired gun. But
~ Felix Dennis
But Matt's unease returned the moment he entered the Sprint store and started hearing about the two-year commitment. The salesman's smile looked somehow satanic, like the devil in one of those movies where a naïve guy sells his soul. When the salesman whipped out a map of the United States—the "nonroaming" areas, he informed them, were in bright red—Matt started to back away. As
~ Harlan Coben
The salesman kept jabbering. Matt tuned him out, but Olivia gave the man her full attention. She asked a question or two, just out of formality, but the salesman knew that this one was not only hooked, lined, and sinkered but fried up and halfway down the gullet.
~ Harlan Coben
After McMaster left, Trump asked, "Who was that guy? He wrote a book didn't he? It said bad things about people. I thought you told me he was in the Army." "He is in the Army." "He's dressed like a beer salesman," the president said. Bannon, noted for his terrible wardrobe, agreed. He thought McMaster's suit looked like it cost only $ 200, or maybe only $ 100.
~ Bob Woodward
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
You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation, they pass it on. its the secret ingredient the foundationfor a salesman's success. lie well and you make a fortune every day. your wife purrs like a kitten, and your children ealk tall with pride.
~ Tahir Shah
In 1986 a typical salesman subscribed to Time or perhaps Playboy, played golf, and sold corporate and government bonds. By 1994 that same salesman read Soldier of Fortune and Guns and Ammo, shot doves, and sold leveraged-indexed-inverse-floating-dual-currency structured notes. This was no coincidence.
~ Frank Partnoy
Information. What do you know about the salesman's needs or the store's needs? Is the salesman on salary, commission, or a combination of both? You don't know.
~ Herb Cohen
But does the salesman know something about you? Yes.
~ Herb Cohen
Over and above this "given fact," the salesman knows which nearby competitors sell refrigerators, whether they're featuring special sales at present, and how much they're charging.
~ Herb Cohen
Note that the salesman never responds directly to any question that might give you information.
~ Herb Cohen
I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.
~ Martin Kippenberger
I learned something in the juice isle, and that is, I don't know what's going on with cranberries, but they're getting in all the other juices. Whoever the salesman for cranberries does a great job. He's showing up everywhere. Hey what do you got? Apples? Well let's put some cranberries in them; we'll call it cran-apple - go fifty fifty. What do you got? Grapes? What about cran-grape? What do you got? Mangos? Cran-mango! What do you got? Pork chops? Cran-chops!
~ Brian Regan
We needed a refrigerator for our new place and I've never bought a refrigerator my whole life. I went into the appliance store, there's like 900 of 'em lined up, there's a salesman there. What's this guy supposed to say about refrigerators? Well you got this refrigerator here, This keeps all your food cold for 600...You've got this refrigerator, This keeps all your food cold for 800...Check this out, 1400, keeps all your food cold.
~ Brian Regan
I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.
~ Theodore Roethke
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
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
~ Karl Kraus
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
A travelling salesman has a hundred cities on his patch. He knows all the distances between every pair of cities. He needs to visit each city once and end up at his starting point. What's his shortest route?
~ Ian Mcewan
For years, TransCanada has been selling the Keystone XL pipeline to Americans with all of the enthusiasm of a used car salesman - and using all of the same tricks. However, one myth is more egregious than all the rest: this pipeline will enhance America's energy independence.
~ Tom Steyer
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
My dad was a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. He bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wis., and sold it to stores in the region. He was a terrific salesman. People loved and trusted him, and he never let anyone down.
~ Tony Shalhoub
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
~ Taylor Negron
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
~ Phil Jackson