Salesman Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

  Courteney Cox

  Dad, Home, Swimming

  "Courteney Cox Loves Botox, Therapy". InStyle Magazine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• Fear is the greatest salesman.

  Robert Klein

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• I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

  Fred Durst

  My Own, I Can

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

  Ken Stott

  Jobs, Acting

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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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• A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Pain, Ignorance

  "Main Street". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1920.

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• It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dark, Parent, Upset

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.101, Fawcett

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• It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman.

  Chris Murray

  Views

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• I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano salesman. I couldn't sell them. I could demonstrate them, but people wouldn't buy them from me.

  Michael Feinstein

  Ohio, Years, Piano

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

  Andy Grove

  People, Growth, Desire

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Strong, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.

  Tibor Kalman

  Thinking, Artist, Dresses

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• From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

  Randeep Hooda

  Boys, Doors, Car

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