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  • The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

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

    Dream   Want   Aluminum  
  • The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.

    Faults   Worst   Bores  
  • I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

    Beautiful   Doors   Ideas  
    "The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1965.
  • Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

  • Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

    Business   Media   May  
  • 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.

    Book   Writing   Agents  
    "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.
  • Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • 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.

    Fun   Music Is   Interest  
    Source: www.rollingstone.com
  • You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

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

    Ideas   Deals   Salesman  
  • What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.

    Jobs   Nice   Taken  
  • 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 (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.7, John Wiley and Sons
  • I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.153, Dial Press
  • A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees.

    "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.
  • The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.

    Home   Reality   Shoes  
  • I was a door-to-door window salesmen in what feels like a cheap, creepy pedophile situation. And I can say that because we were a bunch of kids driving around in the back of some old guy's van and it was creepy. Now that I look back on it I get chills of creepiness.

    Kids   Doors   Guy  
    "Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.
  • To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

    Drunk   Height   Salesman  
  • Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  • The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting?

    Keys   Car   Waiting  
  • Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.

  • Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best.

    Kings   Snakes   Oil  
  • If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

    Doors   People   Doe  
  • I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

  • I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

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

  • My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

    Mom   Dad   Real  
  • So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

    allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
  • Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

    Hurt   Rural Areas   Pay  
  • Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.

    Kids   Years   Careers  
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