Quote by Laurie Penny Download Open image ““every groundswell of idealism has salesmen scampering in its wake.”” — Laurie Penny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for everyone else… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come… — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
“Our present condition is the result of following the leadership of idealists and philanthropic doctrinaires, aided and abetted by the perfectly understandable demand of… — T. Lothrop Stoddard Copy Share Image
“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?… — Sinclair Lewis 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 is only a matter of time before you start believing deep down that everything is sales and marketing, and that whenever somebody seems like they care about you or about some noble idea or cause, that person is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how… — Stefne Miller Copy Share Image
“I would like to express how I regard salespeople in general. I consider they embody a unified and diverse aggregate of the most able… — Michael Delaware Copy Share Image
“All of us want to believe that we make up our own minds, that sales doesn’t work on us. But it’s not true.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“In any successful business, everybody has to be part of the sales force.” — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump is a bloviating freakshow of the id whose job it is to articulate the ugliest parts of the modern psyche with enough… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“It has been noted that many of the soi-disant ‘disruptive’ products being marketed as game changers by Silicon Valley startup kids are things that… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Men, particularly nerdy men, are socialised to blame women – usually their peers and/or the women they find sexually desirable – for the trauma… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms,… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“It is not elitist to look fascism in the face and reject it. It is not anti-democratic to carry on believing in a society… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“I’m sure that Trump wants to sit in a shiny chair in the Oval Office and have people tell him all day that he’s… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
