Salesman Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Wrong Number, Phones, Numbers

  Anthony Horowitz (2004). “Skeleton Key”, p.97, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting.

  Anne Lamott

  Divorce, Vacation, Journey

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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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• 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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• Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

  Charley Reese

  Mean, Pay, Rich

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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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• Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

  Johnny Carson

  Happiness, Blonde, Liquor

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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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• My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.

  Neil Oliver

  Father, Self, Kitchen

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Beer, Marijuana, Law

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1985). “Right Reason: A Collection”, Doubleday Books

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• Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.

  B. C. Forbes

  Father, Successful, Class

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• I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.

  Shay Carl

  Jobs, Doors, North Carolina

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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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• We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which a nation-wide usury rises like a Golem (a created monster) with a million hands on a million throats, to choke the honor and the freedom-of-movement of a hard-working people.

  Samuel Roth

  Hard Work, Hands, People

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• Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

  Deval Patrick

  Jobs, Massachusetts, Fixed

  "Deval Patrick DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Mother, Father, School

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• We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

  Criss Jami

  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.53, Criss Jami

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• [My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

  Nat Hentoff

  Father, Saws, Impressed

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

  Gene Wilder

  Real, Comedian, Want

  "Gene Wilder Dies From Complications Of Alzheimer's At Age 83". "Morning Edition" with Bob Mondello, www.npr.org. August 30, 2016.

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• Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Years, Car, Thirty

  Source: www.esquire.com

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