#salesman

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 am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#deal #i #i am #ideas #salesman

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

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#i #news #product #sale #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

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

#companies #desires #everyone #expect #genes

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me. ↗

— Fred Durst

#anything #i #me #my own #own

I think basically an actor is a salesman. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#basically #i #i think #salesman #think

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale. ↗

— Early Wynn

#ballgame #i #like #likes #losing