Salesman Quotes - Page 9

• Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

  John Lahr

  Spiritual, White, America

  "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Mother, Father, Class

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• My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dad, Believe, Taught

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• I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

  Aaron Tveit

  Teacher, Play, Car

  "SXSW: Aaron Tveit on Going From Stage to Screen, 'Les Mis' Groupies and New Gig 'Graceland'". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 12, 2013.

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• Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

  Merv Griffin

  Kings, Doubt, Television

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• The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.

  Sinclair Lewis

  School, Army, Boys

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• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Men, Giving

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Mother, Father, Son

  Source: deadline.com

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• Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.

  Tony Evans

  Views, Etc, Hats

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• Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.

  John Caudwell

  People, Giving, Advice

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• A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, People, Dresses

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.

  John Turturro

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Skills, Imagination

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump.

  John Dean

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.

  Ray Wise

  Games, Car, Style

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• Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, School, Home

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• The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

  Scott Bakula

  Home, Reality, Shoes

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• I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I might have wound up like my father, who never did find that which he could devote his life to. He sort of drifted from job to job. He was a traveling salesman, he was a bookkeeper, he was an office manager, he was here, there, there. And however enthusiastic he was at the beginning, his job would bore him. If I hadn't had the writing, I think I might have replicated what he was doing, which would not have been good.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Father, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2006.

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• The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

  Robert A. Whitney

  Men, Average, People

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• I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

  John D. MacDonald

  Beautiful, Doors, Ideas

  "The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1965.

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• If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

  Erich Fromm

  Useless, Commodity, Fraud

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

  Nat Hentoff

  Father, England, South

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.

  Penelope Lively

  Successful, Egypt, Jerusalem

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• Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax cut, and I, Donald Trump, won't benefit," he expects you to believe that. It doesn't matter that it's not true. It's he said it, you're supposed to believe it. And that's how he's run his entire administration. If he says it, that makes it true.

  David Cay Johnston

  Running, Believe, Cutting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

  Jacques Barzun

  Independent, Order

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