Salesman Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Ideas, Deals

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• If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

  Erich Fromm

  Personality, Physicians, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• I spent 15 years in I-AA football, which is awesome, because you wear every hat in the building at one time. I was everything from a PA announcer to a popcorn salesman to a teacher at a university, as part of the PE department. When you don't have resources, what you do is study as much as you can and try to put it in your own terms. There's no one thing I've invented.

  Jim McElwain

  Football, Teacher, Years

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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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• 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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• Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Thinking, People, Sample

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• Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.' And if it doesn't change the world, then they say, 'There's an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.'

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Law, Giving, Dollars

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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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• Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs- bank vice presidents, insurance salesmen, auditors, secretaries of defense- and you'll realie they all dress the same way, essentially the way the mannequins in the Sears menswear department dress. Now look at the real successes, the people who make a lot more money than you- Elton John, Captain Kangaroo, anybody from Saudi Arabia, Big Bird, and so on. They all dress funny- and they all succeed.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Real, Average

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• I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers.

  David Letterman

  Brother, Looks, Brooks

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• 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.

  Matthew Lesko

  Believe, Mean, Offering

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• To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

  Honore de Balzac

  Drunk, Height, Impossibility

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• I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

  Charles Bukowski

  Notebook, Thinking, Ideas

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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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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• Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

  Johnny Carson

  Dream, Want, Aluminum

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• Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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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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• 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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• 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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• A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Writing, Agents

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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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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