Salesman Quotes

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

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

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

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

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

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

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

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

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

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

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

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

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.

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

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.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

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

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

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.