Salesman Quotes

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

— Zig Ziglar

Salesmen always need something to sell.

— Barry Ritholtz

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

— Janet Reno

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

— Paul Lynde

I was a car salesman, if you can believe it.

— Chris Stapleton

A salesman sees a commission.

— James Cook

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

— Martin Kippenberger

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

— Early Wynn

“It seems like I never have any time. I should have never stopped being a watch salesman.”

— Jarod Kintz

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

— H. L. Mencken

Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.

— Damien Fahey

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.

— Walter Russell

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

— Nat Hentoff

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

— Arthur Miller

“If I tell you I want to be a door-to-door salesman, don’t knock it.
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— Jarod Kintz

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But…

— Ben Feldman

How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would…

— Betty White

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man.…

— Norman Mailer

I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and…

— Mike Royer

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of…

— Kate Bush

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also…

— John Hodgman

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days,…

— Henry Kravis

Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want.…

— Claude C. Hopkins

Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion…

— Donald Miller

Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very…

— Mandy Patinkin

If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as…

— Napoleon Hill

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.…

— Phil Jackson

Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are…

— Malcolm Gladwell

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game…

— Honore de Balzac

In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to…

— Nick Thune

“Max dances around in a circle with one leg pulled up, and people move away as if he's mentally unstable. He and…

— Victoria Scott

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind…

— Arthur Miller

I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for…

— Rachel Cohn

I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I…

— Donald E. Westlake

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.…

— B. C. Forbes

In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I…

— Joe J. Christensen

A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your…

— Joey Bishop