My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher. — Jim Parrack Copy Share Image
[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best. — Mickey Duff Copy Share Image
It's not rebellion when you're selling out to an out of fashion salesman — Framing Hanley Copy Share Image
We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Most salesmen are no-nonsense guys. But I’m not like them. I’m the #1 nonsense salesman in all of Camelot.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
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… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes… — Moby Copy Share Image
A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“They all call me "Excuse me," even though my nametag clearly says "Jordan." It's like people don't actually exist while they're working.… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs- bank vice presidents, insurance salesmen,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“If you’re a salesman, you have to deal with yourself the way you are. Not how you’d like to be. If you… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
I don't know what in the hell's going on with cranberries, but they're getting in all the other juices. Whoever the salesman… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger Copy Share Image
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image