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Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice. -- James Cash Penney
Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer. -- Paul G. Hoffman
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close. -- Annette Bening
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship. -- Erle Stanley Gardner
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great. -- Margaret Heffernan
Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense. -- Reginald Fessenden
Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople. -- James Cash Penney
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative. -- Barbara Corcoran
What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch. -- Stan Musial
I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. -- Henry J. Kaiser
The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way. -- Ray Kroc
Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves. -- Walter Russell
To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience. -- Ruth Orkin
Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news. -- Richard Halverson
Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work. -- Phil Jackson
This next nugget of salesmanship cannot be perfected in a single afternoon. However, once you have it mastered, your competition will continuously believe you possess some mystical customer attracting formula -- Chris Murray
Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must. -- Claude C. Hopkins
Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot. -- J. B. Priestley
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It. -- Herbert Marcuse
Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work. -- Bruce Barton
It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship. -- Hannah Arendt
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition. -- Freya Stark
If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts. -- Herbert Marcuse
It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished. -- Fred Wilson
Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. -- Morris Hite
I have a doctorate degree from the School of Hard Knocks. I studied door-to-door salesmanship. This was before the doorbell was invented. -- Jarod Kintz
The most important secret of salesmanship is to find out what the other fellow wants, then help him find the best way to get it -- Frank Bettger
The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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