Salesman Quotes · Page 5

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

— John Lahr

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

— Jacques Barzun

“I’ll give you money to buy what I’m selling, because I’m a savvy salesman.”

— Jarod Kintz

I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.

— Dan Schulman

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

— David Hyde Pierce

I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers.

— David Letterman

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

— Vincent Van Gogh

From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

— Randeep Hooda

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

I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also…

— Noah Hawley

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

“I’m a natural salesman. I sold my soul to the devil. I’m so shrewd that I got pennies on the dollar for…

— Jarod Kintz

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes…

— Moby

Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was…

— Richard Jeni

Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always…

— Glen Duncan

It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through…

— Erma Bombeck

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

“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

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio…

— Shirley Temple

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

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

No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some…

— Ronnie Apteker

Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.

— Martin Gilbert

I've never been a talker. I've never been a good salesman when it comes to selling fights.

— Alexander Gustafsson

Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

— Johnny Carson

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

— Fred Durst

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

— Zig Ziglar

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

— Freedy Johnston

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

— Bela Lugosi

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

— Criss Jami

“You take every salesman that walks into this shop at his word—why not Gianluca?”

— Adriana Trigiani

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

— Matthew Lesko

“A brick could be used as a car salesman. (A used car salesman.)
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— Jarod Kintz

Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.

— T.I

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

— Mike Nichols

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

— Barbara Corcoran

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What we need is a good salesman for Mississippi, someone who can effectively represent our interests.

— Mike Espy