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The good lawyer is the great salesman. -- Janet Reno
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. -- W. Clement Stone
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? -- Woody Allen
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. -- Oscar Wilde
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
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. -- Elia Kazan
Timid salesmen have skinny kids. -- Zig Ziglar
The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems. -- Stephen Covey
I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale. -- Early Wynn
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman. -- Bela Lugosi
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand. -- Barbara Corcoran
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
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 R. Schwab
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that. -- Arthur Miller
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
The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too. -- Ludwig von Mises
Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. 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 think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor. -- Phil Jackson
Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure. -- T. Colin Campbell
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro. -- Dean Koontz
Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job. -- Ken Stott
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. -- John Lahr
'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. -- John Lahr
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.' -- Mike Nichols
I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass. -- Jason Reitman
[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent. -- Nat Hentoff
Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality. -- Elizabeth McCracken
He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said. -- Anthony Horowitz
I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock. -- Gene Wilder
Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman. -- T.I.
A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor. -- David Suchet
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman. -- James Cash Penney
I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in. -- Nick Woodman
Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow. -- Andy Grove
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are. -- Marc Andreessen
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are. -- Marc Andreessen
I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina. -- Shay Carl
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed. -- Dougray Scott
My father worked two jobs. He assembled speakers during the day, and then he sold real estate at night and on weekends. And then he eventually, when he was in his mid-50s, became a full-time real estate salesman. -- Terry J. Lundgren
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. -- Moby
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. -- Martin Lewis Perl
In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time. -- Norman Foster
My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school? -- Emanuel Celler
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor. -- Phil Jackson
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You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you. -- Scott Bakula
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. -- Al Pacino
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I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both. -- Mike Nichols
A salesman sees a commission. -- James Cook
Fear is the greatest salesman. -- Robert Klein
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I think basically an actor is a salesman. -- Paul Lynde
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had a father who was a traveling salesman. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman. -- Tibor Kalman
I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. -- Martin Kippenberger
They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product. -- Tony Abbott
Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome. -- Les Wexner
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility. -- Honore de Balzac
You're good salesman, if you make people buyproduct they don't need. -- Toba Beta
We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman. -- Shepard Smith
I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me. -- Fred Durst
Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman. -- Carey Williams
Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman. -- Johnny Carson
A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick. -- Danny DeVito
Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder. -- Robert Orben
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires. -- Zig Ziglar
Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman. -- H. L. Mencken
No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization. -- Matthew Lesko
My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever. -- Nat Hentoff
Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman. -- Wolfgang Puck
Don King is the best snake oil salesman I ever met. The absolute best. -- Mickey Duff
Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage. -- Damien Fahey
I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. -- Marc Guggenheim
If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud. -- Erich Fromm
It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman. -- Chris Murray
Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen. -- Napoleon Hill
I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy. -- Frank Winfield Woolworth
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
What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing? -- Michael Z. Williamson
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. -- Herb Ritts
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher. -- Jim Parrack
Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry! -- Jerry Coleman
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? -- Kurt Vonnegut
I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself. -- Freedy Johnston
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe. -- Marilyn Manson
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. -- Karl Kraus
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises. -- Napoleon Hill
If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary. -- Gene Simmons
I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in -- Nick Woodman
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. -- Vincent Van Gogh
I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman. -- Mike Scully
The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting? -- Joe Girard
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
No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client. -- Ray Kroc
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. -- Martin Kippenberger
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
Everyone is a salesman, and the product is each person. Personal branding is being conscious to the continual nature of selling yourself. -- Jarod Kintz
Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western. -- Charles Kimbrough
When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. -- Edward Norton
Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples. -- Johnny Carson
Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives. -- Charles M. Schwab
Yesterday I bought myself a karate trophy. But I feel like I won it, because the salesman really beat me up over the price. -- Jarod Kintz
I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams. -- Mike Royer
I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman. -- Ashton Kutcher
What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in? -- Malcolm Forbes
After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person. -- Kate Bush
A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home. -- Julie Ann Dawson
I am a man of action, like a statue of a guy running. In business, when a salesman and a customer race each other, both win. -- Jarod Kintz
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in. -- David Ogilvy
Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt. -- Penelope Lively
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy. -- Mooji
The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it -- Claude C. Hopkins
As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader. -- Kathryn Jean Lopez

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