Salesman Quotes - Page 10

• I have a bigger problem at food events when I turn over a wine glass and people insist on pouring me a glass of wine. I have a bigger problem with drunk wine representatives, drunk wine salesmen at food events who keep trying to push a glass in my hand.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Wine, Drunk, People

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

  Sebastian Junger

  Thinking, Years, Made

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• I have had very little interest in being an icon or visual representation for my music. I like playing music with my bandmates and I have more and more fun onstage these days, but the part where you're supposed to be a salesman for your music is pretty unappealing to me.

  Jorge Elbrecht

  Fun, Music Is, Interest

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

  Karl Kraus

  German Language, Littles, Today

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

  William Feather

  Successful, Needs, Inexperience

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• In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to give me a shot as a salesman for a shift. What happened was I sold two cars in one day and they offered me the position. After a while I decided I didn't want the job and so I told the manager I'd contracted HIV from having unprotected sex. It was only half true but I'd been feeling sick and somehow convinced myself I was really dying. I remember I sat in my boss' office, the both of us crying. Later than night he calls my dad and says 'I'm sorry your son has HIV.' It was terrible.

  Nick Thune

  Senior, Jobs, Sex

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• [Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social
  Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.

  Chuck Robb

  Funny, Lying, School

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• Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.

  Martin Gilbert

  Sophisticated

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• I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Father, People

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• We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

  Shepard Smith

  News, Products

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• In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of the story of the salesman who came to a house one hot summer day. Through the screen door he could see a young boy practicing his scales on the piano. His baseball glove and hat were by the side of the piano bench. He said, "Say, boy, is your mother home?" To which the boy replied, "What do you think?" Thank heavens for conscientious parents!

  Joe J. Christensen

  Summer, Baseball, Mother

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• Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Oratory, Able, Qualifications

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

  Frank Zappa

  Naughty, America, Car

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Home, Design

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• Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

  Billy Childish

  People, Car, Looks

  "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 2, 2006.

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• I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

  Frank Winfield Woolworth

  Business, People, Marketing

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• Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.

  Karl Evang

  Health, Numbers, Giving

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• Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

  Edwin Black

  Teenager, Asking, London

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• Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for?  I do.  But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book.  I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus.  And it will be at a wedding.  And there will be a feast.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Book, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.206, Thomas Nelson

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• Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'

  John Rawlings Rees

  Family, Thinking, Ideas

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Order, Gumption

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• Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.

  Damien Fahey

  Car, Bully, Looks

  Twitter post from Aug 30, 2012

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• Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

  Herb Ritts

  Photography, Parent, Firsts

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• Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

  Les Wexner

  Rome, Togas, Remember

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