If I tell you I want to be a door-to-door salesman, don’t…

“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of…

— Allen Tate

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the…

— Jonathan Anderson

As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful…

— Kathryn Jean Lopez

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…

— Alex Gibney

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange…

— John Green

“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 is only…

— David Foster Wallace

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that…

— Jack Edmonds

From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender…

— Brian Dennehy

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman,…

— Aaron Tveit

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

— Honore de Balzac

Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you…

— Tony Evans

Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became…

— T. Colin Campbell

A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a cliché, but there's some…

— Josh Kaufman

look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You…

— Bob Dylan