Quotes About Salesman

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.

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

In return for this money I will give the most efficient service of which I am capable, rendering the fullest possible quantity, and the best possible quality of service in the capacity of salesman of ……………. (describe the service or merchandise you intend to sell).

What we need is a good salesman for Mississippi, someone who can effectively represent our interests.

It appears that the prostitute, not the salesman, best exemplifies the qualities indispensable to success in American society.

I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.

Tim felt like a buyer annoyed with the salesman's pitch but still interested in the car.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Throughout the farming areas of Ohio, for instance, almost every little barn and building had an elaborate lightning conductor; there was an amazing number of these rods bristling on buildings throughout the state. Now, compared with any of the other neighboring states, Ohio is not more subject to lightning: it seemed to me that the enterprise of some persuasive salesman had left its mark. Of

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.

I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that would in turn sell them to American women, not unlike my father had done.

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.

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

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

He is one of the few men at the club who witnessed a human sacrifice and would have found it barbaric if the victim had not been an insurance salesman.

Does the salesman like this information? Yes, because you've exposed your deadline to him without knowing his.

Time. Compounding the expanding informational gap is the problem of organizational pressure and time. The salesman you're dealing with seems relaxed. His organization isn't visible.

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.

I reminded myself that I was, probably, not clairvoyant. Just a salesman. A salesman can speed-read not only the walk, the voice, the clothes, and gestures--all of the loudspeaker announcements of identity and aspiration--but the aura of a customer's need. No one can hide from a good salesman.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

But I did know that opportunities were unlimited. For sale are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman-not the attitude of the prospect.