Quotes about salesman (14 Quotes)



    Over the table, on which an unpacked line of fabric samples was all spread out -- Samsa was a traveling salesman -- hung the picture which he had recently cut out of a glossy magazine and lodged in a pretty gilt frame. It showed a lady done up in a fur hat and a fur boa, sitting upright and raising up against the viewer a heavy fur muff in which her whole forearm had disappeared.

    First he is short and then he is tall. He is out of the race to fight C, and then he is in the race to fight C. He's got this Polish guy and a grill salesman in an expensive RV with him running around the state. None of those things by themselves are noteworthy, but you add them all together and you get this real strange picture.

    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?




    I don't want to sound like a snake-oil salesman here. There will be debate. It's not really a time-consuming undertaking. It's a matter of defining your neighborhood elements.

    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.


    The people with a vested interest who want a stadium tax subsidy kind of remind me of a used car salesman -- the longer they keep trying, they more they wear you down, ... Generally, when you go to buy a car, the longer you are at the dealer, the more likely it is you are going to get screwed.


    A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.


    Every boxer fights differently, and every salesman has his unique style. But the results are the same you are either a champion or just another fighter, you either get the sale or you dont. The real key to success is to do those things that will prepare you to be a champion.



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