#salesman

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.' ↗

— Courteney Cox

#been #called #come #dad #great

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

#him #inside #loose #measure #merit

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#amount #bonds #days #enormous #go

I never got to call myself a door-to-door salesman, because, regrettably, I only ever went to one door. But one day I just might knock on another door, to be able to proudly say that I was once a door-to-door salesman. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #pride #salesman #funny

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#ever #government #grant #guarantee #organization

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#believe #care #enough #guarantee #kind

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

— Bela Lugosi

#else #every #mad #plumber #salesman

As a salesman, it’s not enough to be able to sell a toilet to a man who’s got to pee. You’ve got to make him pay you for the privilege of pissing his pants. Don’t sell him a toilet. Don’t sell him pants. Sell him a privilege. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#privilege #salesman #sell #funny

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

— Oscar Wilde

#deal #great #great deal #knows #much

I had a father who was a traveling salesman. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#had #i #salesman #traveling #who