Salesman Quotations

I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

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

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.

Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

The people with a vested interest who want a stadium tax subsidy kind of remind me of a used car salesman -- the longer they keep trying, they more they wear you down, ... Generally, when you go to buy a car, the longer you are at the dealer, the more likely it is you are going to get screwed.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

Be liked and you will never want.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Naturally, they're good at it. What greater assurance could a 30-mile-a- week runner have than to be advised by a salesman who's clocked 10, 20 or 30 thousand miles in his running career?

If a salesman has failed to follow up on his leads, the executive in charge of sales can reassign any customer to his or her favorite sales rep right on the dashboard.

He made about 25 or 30 marbles, and they were pretty primitive, ... But when the salesman came back through, he purchased every one of them.

People like to feel they are buying of their own good judgment as a result of the information the salesman has given them

Salesmen always need something to sell.

When a Merrill Lynch salesman came up to you and tried to sell you a Merrill Lynch fund, you know the salesman didn't want to do it because it raised too many issues.

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

First he is short and then he is tall. He is out of the race to fight C, and then he is in the race to fight C. He's got this Polish guy and a grill salesman in an expensive RV with him running around the state. None of those things by themselves are noteworthy, but you add them all together and you get this real strange picture.

I sensed a lot of mental and intellectual fatigue in Berlusconi. He surprised me. He's too much of a good salesman to make a statement like that at the end of a debate.

The salesman left and that night Storm Lake had a fire. Harold drove it to the fire.

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk.

It's just like the automotive industry. With the knowledge that more women are buying cars than men, a car salesman would be foolhardy to show a woman a vanity mirror before he talks about price and performance. Women are savvy consumers, and we're talking with them about U-value and energy efficiency, much more often than color options or how easy our windows are to clean.

It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and a Tory, and my mum's a social worker. So I can always see the benefits of both arguments.

Dad went back to that Western Auto store. The wagons were still stacked the same way. He pointed to the wagon on the bottom and said to the salesman, 'That's the biggest one you have, but not the biggest one you sell, right?' The salesman told him he could order a bigger one. Dad told him get it ... and when they put me in that wagon, and you couldn't see me from under the (wood panels) on the side. ... That was what 'Blue Suede Shoes' meant to him.

The best salesman for Porsche is the car itself. Nobody, including myself or anybody in this office is better at convincing a prospect to buy one than the car itself. The car does all the talking for you.

He's such a good salesman that they didn't have a clue about what he was doing. I don't think prosecutors start out suspecting their own witnesses to be criminals.

He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake . . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

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

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

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

I don't want to sound like a snake-oil salesman here. There will be debate. It's not really a time-consuming undertaking. It's a matter of defining your neighborhood elements.

I began working as a part-time salesman, went to full-time salesman and on up to general manager, and eventually wanted to buy the place but I couldn't afford it.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

A salesman sees a commission.

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

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

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

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