Top 251 Salesman Quotes & Sayings

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

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through the song. But at the same time, I'm not a religious salesman. I feel like God doesn't really need a salesman, and what these songs are are simply my interactions with this life and learning. I guess the bottom line is the songs are really honest, you know what I mean. That faith is going to come through. If the listener is looking for it, that's definitely a part of it.

Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

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.

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

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. 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. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

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

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

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don't think I'm as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people - which is why I think I did so well.

Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.

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

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.

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

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

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

I was a car salesman, if you can believe it.

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.

It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman.

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.

I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

I wasn't a very good salesman.

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

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

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

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

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

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

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

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

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

Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

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

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

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

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

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.

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.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

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

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

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.

My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.

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

A salesman sees a commission.

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.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

Before boxing I was a car salesman but I was horrible at it and had to make a living elsewhere.