Top 251 Salesman Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

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.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

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.

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?

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.

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.

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

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.'

I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers.

Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.

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.

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

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

I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

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

After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.

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.

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.

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.

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

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

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

'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

In my case, I make it clear to the brand that I'm not a salesman. I can show your product as if I use it every day in my daily life but I won't tell people to buy it.

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

'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.

I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

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.

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.

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

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

People worship anyone in the entertainment industry. You can be a used-car salesman and have a television commercial on the local station, and that makes you a celebrity.

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.

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.

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

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.

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.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

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

My father was a salesman in Delhi and used to go around Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for work.

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

I'm a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.

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

Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

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

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

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

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

White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

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.

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

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.

Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.