Salesman Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Salesmen always need something to sell.

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

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.

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

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

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

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.

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

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

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

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

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.

As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader.

Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

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 had a father who was a traveling salesman.

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.