Salesman Quotes - Page 4

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Teach, Invited

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• The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to "broadcast" negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that "like attracts like" and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers.

  Napoleon Hill

  Expression, Giving, Decision

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.51, John Wiley and Sons

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• 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

  Perfect, Interesting, Want

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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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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• How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Keys, Car

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• I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.

  Shirley Temple

  Eight, Years, Pie

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• Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education

  Randy Pausch

  Use, Might, Selling

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.

  Arthur Miller

  Summer, Morning, School

  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.138, A&C Black

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• Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.

  Rick Riordan

  Marine, Skeletons, Doors

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• Turns out that once you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Paranormal insurance salesmen with special "godslayer" term life policies. Charlatan's with "godproof" armor and extraplanar safe houses for rent. But most notably, other gods.

  Kevin Hearne

  People, House, Special

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.295, Del Rey

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• I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

  Freedy Johnston

  Snakes, Oil, Trying

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

  David Suchet

  Successful, Actors, Swindlers

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• A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

  Danny DeVito

  Money, Sick

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• Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

  Martin Gardner

  Real, Science, Self

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• Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

  Karl Kraus

  Nature, Air, People

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• I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Drug

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

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• The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

  William Feather

  Determination, Widows, Succeed

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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

  Mickey Duff

  Kings, Snakes, Oil

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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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• 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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• Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, People, Trying

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