Salesman Quotes - Page 3

• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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

  Jason Reitman

  Ass, Theater, Enjoy

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• Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.

  Robert Orben

  Successful, Fortune Cookie, Common

  Robert Orben (1979). “2500 jokes to start 'em laughing”, Doubleday Books

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• You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.

  Tony Robbins

  Rejection, Use, Littles

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• The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

  Shelley Berman

  Storm, Lightning, Arms

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• A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!

  Joey Bishop

  Giving Up, Wife, Car

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• A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.

  Robert Henry Grant

  Leadership, Running, Responsibility

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

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Business, Media, May

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• A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a cliché, but there's some truth to it: Inuit who live above the Arctic Circle use insulated refrigerators to keep their food from freezing in subzero temperatures

  Josh Kaufman

  Circles, Inuit, Use

  Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.117, Penguin

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

  Joe Girard

  Keys, Car, Waiting

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• If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Doors, Vacuums

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• America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Gun, Two, Qualms About

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Oct 23, 2013

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• I was a door-to-door window salesmen in what feels like a cheap, creepy pedophile situation. And I can say that because we were a bunch of kids driving around in the back of some old guy's van and it was creepy. Now that I look back on it I get chills of creepiness.

  Joseph Bruce

  Kids, Doors, Guy

  "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

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

  Mickey Duff

  Kings, Snakes, Oil

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• 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.

  Scott Bakula

  Honesty, Believe, Character

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• Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Leadership, Self, Dust

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• If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

  Ben Feldman

  Doors, People, Doe

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• 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.

  Kathryn Jean Lopez

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Leader

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• A salesman sees a commission.

  James Cook

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

  Tony Abbott

  Changed, Havens, Products

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• We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

  Dave Ramsey

  Teacher, Children, Parent

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• The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Atmosphere, Should

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

  Cher

  Home, Car, Politics

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• 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

  Father, Wine, School

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