Salesman Quotes - Page 7

• White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

  Michael Moore

  Movie, Jobs, Nice

  "Stupid White Men ...and Other Excuses For the State of the Nation!". Book by Michael Moore, 2001.

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• Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Doors, Views

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Trying, Bait

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.

  Douglas Coupland

  Kids, Years, Careers

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• All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

  George Will

  Politician

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• Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.

  Zadie Smith

  Football, People, The End Of The Day

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• The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.

  Denis Johnson

  Sweet, Rain, Names

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• What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, College, Expression

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Make You Think, Drug

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.153, Dial Press

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

  Michael Z. Williamson

  Cities, Politics, Truck

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• 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.

  Herb Ritts

  Photography, Jobs, Thinking

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• Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/.

  Bob Dylan

  Ungrateful, Looks, Toronto

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• What causes homophobia? What is it that makes the heterosexual man worry about this? I think it's because deep down all men know that we have weak sales resistance. We're constantly buying shoes that hurt us, pants that don't fit right. Men think, 'Obviously I can be talked into anything. What if I accidentally wander into some sort of homosexual store thinking it's a shoe store and the salesmen says, 'Just hold this guy's hand, walk around a little bit, see how it feels. No obligation, no pressure, just try it.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• a salesman is an it that stinks to please but whether to please itself or someone else makes no more difference than if it sells hate condoms education snakeoil vac uumcleaners terror strawberries democ ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair

  e. e. cummings

  Hate, Hair, Differences

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.86, Grove Press

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

  David Hyde Pierce

  Security Guards, Ties, Security

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Eye, Secret, Teeth

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Matter, Machines

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• But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

  John Green

  Powerful, Doctors, Orange Juice

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

  Dick Armey

  Hurt, Rural Areas, Pay

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

  Matthew Lesko

  Government, Organization, Guarantees

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• People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Adventure, People, England

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• Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

  Paul Harding

  Jesus, Men, Organization

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• He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and he wasn't about to be impressed with some upstart of a toaster salesman who drove a Bonneville.

  Janet Evanovich

  Loyalty, Feet, Toasters

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Party, Hair

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• I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine hours a day, and the whole time he’s surrounded by beds. And not only that, he’s surrounded by shoppers who see the beds and can’t help but think, Man, I’d love to lie down on that bed for a second. So not only does he have to stop himself from lying down, but he has to stop everyone else from doing it, too. I knew if I were him, I would be desperate for human company.

  Rachel Cohn

  Jobs, Lying, Mean

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