Quotes of Salesman - somelinesforyou

“ A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk. ”

- Harry F. Banks

“ We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ I got a B.A. from Hunter College, worked as a school teacher, a lobster salesman, and a literary agent before being published. ”

- Evan Hunter

“ People like to feel they are buying of their own good judgment as a result of the information the salesman has given them. ”

- Paul Parker

“ America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

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

- Early Wynn

“ You would be surprised how many people quit when faced with obstacles. As every good salesman knows, everything may not be possible today, but sooner or later, it is possible. ”

- Earl Graves

“ The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. ”

- Confucius

“ England is a nation of shopkeepers. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less. ”

- Tony Goldwyn

“ We look forward to Mr. Hendrix's appearance before the board of canvassers on Thursday. ”

- William Phillips

“ If the President's looking for another salesman to help him with this tax package, I got a candidate, that old Iraqi information minister. He knows how to sell a fraud. ”

- Al Hunt

“ There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? ”

- Woody Allen

“ We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact. ”

- Charles M. Schwab

“ Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman. ”

- Carey Williams

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman — not the attitude of the prospect. ”

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Frank W. Woolworth

“ America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Have we been cryptic? Right-wingers said Clinton was a lying, unscrupulous traveling salesman. It turned out he was a lying, unscrupulous traveling salesman. Now liberals scratch their heads demanding to know: So what was it about him you didn't like? ”

- Ann Coulter

“ Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake… ”

- Arthur Miller

“ I was a product of the Depression. My father struggled to make a living for our family. He worked as a wrestler, a Marion County policeman, and both a car and insurance salesman. During World War II, he worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority's defense plant as a guard. ”

- Charles Moore

“ To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers. ”

- Adam Smith

“ Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'. ”

- Peter Drucker
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