Salesman Quotes

• The good lawyer is the great salesman.

  Janet Reno

  Feet, Lawyer, Good Lawyer

  "Janet Reno's Choice". Article by Lincoln Caplan, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.

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• We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Life, Ideas, Enthusiasm

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• ‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

  Arthur Miller

  Done, Waste, Made

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

  Arthur Miller

  Dog, Fall, Character

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

  Arthur Miller

  Dark, Diamond, Jungle

  Arthur Miller (2009). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.218, A&C Black

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• Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

  Arthur Miller

  Smile, Men, Earthquakes

  Death of a Salesman (1949) "Requiem"

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• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  Arthur Miller

  Years, Alive, Ends

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Lying, Ridiculous

  Arthur Miller (1994). “Death of a Salesman”, p.78, Heinemann

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• He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

  Arthur Miller

  Failure, Character, Attention

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• Be liked and you will never want.

  Arthur Miller

  Friendship, Want

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

  Warren Buffett

  Motivational, Investing, Buffets

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• Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Kids, Skinny

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.420, Revell

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• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• 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.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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

  Early Wynn

  Sports, Pitching, Likes

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• Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

  Arthur Miller

  Who I Am, Waiting, Trying

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.94, Penguin

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• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

  Arthur Miller

  Funny Things, World, Knows

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.73, Penguin

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• You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Orange, Pieces

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.63, Penguin

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

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Perspective, Motivational Sales

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always room at the top.

  Daniel Webster

  Motivational, Success, Life Changing

  When advised not to become a lawyer as the profession was overcrowded

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