A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors.
Quotes about salesmen (16 Quotes)
I did not know the work they did that was hand in hand with Sports Center. I didn't know Wade had salesmen all over Mississippi and Louisiana and didn't know that would be so big a part of the business.
The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work 33 people producing the product he sells ... and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.
To the salesmen, Watson preached individuality and conservatism at the same time Some men think that personality can be acquired by wearing unusual clothes or by saying something unusual. That is where many young men are wrong. Present your proposition in your own natural way, always keeping your personality behind your product.
People have been searching for the fountain of youth ever since Ponce de Leon, and will probably continue to do so for decades and generations into the future, ... Our job at this hearing is not to kill that hope and desire to remain youthful and healthy as long as possible, but rather the role of the committee is to try and help protect American citizens, particularly the elderly, who are preyed upon by modern-day snake oil salesmen.
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines Nature can rely on progress it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
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.
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.
Military families on or near base are a captive audience for everyone from used car salesmen to payday lenders.
The jury's still out on Illinois. For the most part, you can't rank classes until near signing day because so many schools load up at the end. They have a shot at having a good year. Good salesmen like Zook could do a really good job. They just have to wait for the out-of-state recruits to visit.
There are many cases of salesmen, who have nothing to offer a prospect except friendship, outselling salesmen with everything to offer except friendship.
Watch out for those cars owned by salesmen or servicemen. Any educated consumer can look at a car and tell whether it's well maintained. Twenty-to-thirty thousand miles are common (for a rental or fleet car). Look at the odometer and the type of vehicle.
Salesmen should bear in mind that more mature men who have reached a certain point in business buy rather than are sold. A real salesman does not attempt to sell his prospect but instead directs his efforts towards putting the prospect in a frame of mind so that he will be moved to action by a given set of facts.
Modern business requires that its salesmen be businessmen in the best sense of the wordmen who know theins and outs of the product or service they are selling ...men who can make an intelligent and effective presentation ... and most of all, men who have the modern conceptof service to the customer.
I wouldn't think that used car salesmen have any more of a monopoly on misleading claims than financial advisers, ... My advice is don't believe anybody.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.