Quotes of Salesperson - somelinesforyou

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

- Woody Allen

“ A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

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

- W. Clement Stone

“ The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. ”

- George Herbert

“ I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. ”

- John Fowles

“ You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store. ”

- Joycelyn Elders

“ A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk. ”

- Harry F. Banks

“ There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ”

- William Trevor

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

- Bela Lugosi

“ I never liked being a salesman.... Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out! ”

- Unknown

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

- William Feather

“ 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 have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything. ”

- Brian Eno

“ 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

“ A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress." They became traveling salesmen of metaphors. ”

- Anatole Broyard

“ I hope that the community will cooperate and not hassle the clerks with what they have to do. It's a good store and serves a good need to the community. ”

- Rick Warren

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ”

- George Carlin

“ A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. ”

- Ada Louise Huxtable

“ The good lawyer is the great salesman. ”

- Janet Reno

“ 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

“ Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. ”

- J. C. Penney

“ A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ 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

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

- Carey Williams

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

- Frank W. Woolworth

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

- Gerald Barzan
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