Salesman Quotes

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.

I’ve never been a talker. I’ve never been a good salesman when it comes to selling fights.

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.

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

I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that would in turn sell them to American women, not unlike my father had done.

To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I’m kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I’d say, ‘Your mom would love a painting of you!’ A salesman! I’d hawk paintings.

I’m going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow ’em, we’re going to sell ’em.

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

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

My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn’t get past how manipulative it made me feel.

I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. ‘How are those new cars?’ I asked. ‘They’re fine,’ he said. I thought he’d offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn’t. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn’t buy the car.

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

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

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.

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

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

Donald Trump doesn’t necessarily stay mad for very long. He’s a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or from a salesman’s point of view, if he’s not making the sale, you’re of no use to him. But if you suddenly come back into the showroom and are willing to buy, he’s willing to sell.

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

When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read ‘Death of a Salesman.’ I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.

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

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

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

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said ‘me’; it’s always ‘we.’ I am just the big salesman.

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

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

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.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan… In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

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

I’m going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow ’em, we’re going to sell ’em.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition – from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you’re trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

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

My first paying gig was a play called ‘The Voice of the Prairie’ at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster – a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s – and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn’t get hired for a year.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn’t matter whether he’s a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

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.

I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I’m not even a good salesman.

I have quite a handful of projects here in Tollygunje film industry. There are films like ‘Aschorjo Prodip,’ where I essay a modern day salesman, and others like Aparna Sen’s ‘Gaynar Baksho.’ Let the audience judge me for these roles.

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.

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

Forty-six years after my parents’ journey from India, here I am, the grandson of a spare auto parts salesman and a file clerk, tapped by the President of the United States to be the nation’s chief communications regulator.

I think basically an actor is a 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.

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.

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

I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.

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

Forty-six years after my parents’ journey from India, here I am, the grandson of a spare auto parts salesman and a file clerk, tapped by the President of the United States to be the nation’s chief communications regulator.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My dad was a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. He bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wis., and sold it to stores in the region. He was a terrific salesman. People loved and trusted him, and he never let anyone down.

I wasn’t a very good salesman.

Their educations ended with high school – my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Daddy was a salesman and away a lot, always working. My mom took me to the movies on Thursday nights because it was dish night, when they gave you a free dish along with your movie ticket.

My older brother’s a cricket groundsman, my other brother’s a salesman, and my younger brother’s a trader in the City.

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

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

Their educations ended with high school – my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

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

‘Death Of A Salesman’ is a great acting job.

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

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

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 saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. ‘How are those new cars?’ I asked. ‘They’re fine,’ he said. I thought he’d offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn’t. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn’t buy the car.

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

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

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

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.