Salesman Quotes

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

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.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

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.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

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

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

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

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

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

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

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.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

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

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

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.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

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.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.