Salesman Quotes · Page 4

We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

— Napoleon Hill

“Most salesmen are no-nonsense guys. But I’m not like them. I’m the #1 nonsense salesman in all of Camelot.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.”

— Chris Murray

“No self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.”

— Ray Kroc

Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

— Patricia Marx

“You're good salesman, if you make people buy product they don't need.”

— Toba Beta

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims…

— Malcolm Forbes

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one…

— Dougray Scott

Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse…

— Charley Reese

Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely…

— Penelope Lively

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

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

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer…

— David Ogilvy

The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost…

— Shelley Berman

“One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling…

— Fannie Hurst

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director,…

— Finn Wittrock

“However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball,…

— Michael Delaware

Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . .…

— Paul Harding

I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

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

— Bob Dylan

My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed,…

— Neil Oliver

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I…

— Norman Foster

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got…

— Karl Kraus

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

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

— Tony Abbott

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

— Marilyn Manson

If I tell you I want to be a door-to-door salesman, dont knock it.

— Jarod Kintz

“So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.”

— Nick Bantock

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

— William Feather

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

— Napoleon Hill

Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.

— Wolfgang Puck

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

— Erich Fromm

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

— Frank Winfield Woolworth

Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

— Arthur Miller

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

— William Wrigley, Jr

I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.

— Hunter S. Thompson

At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.

— Milton Berle