Salesman Quotes - Page 6

• We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

  Napoleon Hill

  Calling, Masters

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• No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Army, Creating, People

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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

  Martin Kippenberger

  Ideas, Deals

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• I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn't what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don't just have your vacation to look forward to.' And I love movies.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Love, Life, Dad

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.

  Edward Norton

  Tongue, Pipe, Cheeks

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". Interview with Landon Palmer, filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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

  Johnny Carson

  Dream, Want, Aluminum

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• Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower.

  Richard Jeni

  Country, Military, People

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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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• Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

  Norman Mailer

  Italian, Men, Palaces

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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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• 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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• 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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• I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don't think I'm as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people - which is why I think I did so well.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Talking, Shoes

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• After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.

  Kate Bush

  Writing, Done, Littles

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• The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

  David Ogilvy

  Faults, Worst, Interest

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.13, Profile Books

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• I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.

  Greg Kinnear

  Fall, Writing, College

  "Greg Kinnear Talks THIN ICE, Guest Starring on MODERN FAMILY, and WRITERS with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.

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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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• If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Blessed, Opportunity, College

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.7, John Wiley and Sons

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• I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

  Mike Royer

  Jobs, Credit, Months

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

  Napoleon Hill

  Argument, Offensive, Arise

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.378, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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