Salesman Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.

  Brian Dennehy

  Jobs, Thinking, Doe

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• Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

  Ken Stott

  Jobs, Acting

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• Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics, which means that if you are interested in starting a word-of-mouth epidemic , your resources ought to be solely concentrated on these three groups. No one else matters.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Keys, Epidemics

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• I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."

  Betty White

  Father, Home, School

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mean, Past, People

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jul 19, 2011

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• I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

  Ian Frazier

  Book, People, Twenties

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• What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Home, Office, Calling

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• If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

  Ishmael Reed

  Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, America

  Ishmael Reed (2013). “Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

  Walter Russell

  Income, Volume, Salesmanship

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• I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

  Arthur Miller

  Uncles, Father, Men

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native Americans]. When an Indian guy does well, he's a warrior, even now. He could be a computer salesman, but if he does well, he's a warrior. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

  Sherman Alexie

  War, Native American, Ideas

  "Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Car, People, Personality

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.7, Random House

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• Fear is the greatest salesman.

  Robert Klein

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• I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Guitar, Play, Car

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• The classes of problems which are respectively known and not
  known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...]
  I conjecture that there is no good algorithm for the traveling
  salesman problem. My reasons are the same as for any mathematical
  conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and
  (2) I do not know.

  Jack Edmonds

  Class, Algorithms, Problem

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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