Salesman Quotes

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

Great, Nothing, Knows

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

Book, Attention, Books

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

Teach, Invited, Hires

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

Life, Death, Evening

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

Attitude, Sales, Contingent

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.
Brian Eno

Good, Try, Talent

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

Business, Waiting, Sense

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.
Marc Andreessen

Good, Matter, Either

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

Death, Enjoy, Theater

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Father, Traveling

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

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.
Al Pacino

Education, War, Dad

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.
Elia Kazan

Death, Waiting, Him

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

Best, Unless, Shelf

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.'
Courteney Cox

Time, Great, Home

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

Else, Mad, Actor

I think basically an actor is a salesman.
Paul Lynde

Actor, Basically

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.
Matthew Lesko

Care, Enough, Means

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?
Emanuel Celler

School, Successful, Wife

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.
Dougray Scott

Good, Someone, Feelings

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.
Henry Kravis

Time, Money, Thought

The good lawyer is the great salesman.
Janet Reno

Good, Great, Lawyer

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

Government, Guarantee, Grant

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.
Sebastian Junger

Life, Made, Working

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.
Martin Kippenberger

Ideas, Deal, Travelling

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.
Allen Tate

Life, Failure, Perfect

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

News, Sale, Product

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.
Andy Grove

Everyone, Growth, Expect

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.
David Hyde Pierce

Bad, Security, Guard

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.
Moby

Good, Greatest, Try

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