Salesman Quotes

“I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“Those who make excuses, don't make progress.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You're good salesman,
if you make people buy
product they don't need.”
― Toba Beta

“I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and buying it, and nobody in the store knowing she was a prostitute and all. The salesman probably just thought she was a regular girl when she bought it. It made me feel sad as hell- I don't know why exactly.”
― J.D. Salinger

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.”
― Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top

“A real salesman knows how to engage Anyone Anywhere Anytime in a sensible conversation.”
― honeya

“Women judge you by how much money you make and how prestigious your job title. That's why when women ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I'm a platinum salesman, and I source catalytic converters for discrete buyers.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.”
― Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly

“However, more important to all of that: the players played the game as a true team. There are many teams in baseball, but not all play as a team. Many merely play as a group of talented athletes, which is a huge difference over the course of a long season.”
― Michael Delaware, The Art of Sales Management: Lessons Learned on the Fly

“You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.”
― honeya

“Marketing without sales is dead.”
― Richie Norton

“I'm a lot like a pillow salesman. I say that because I deal in ducks. So, I just push the product early and while they're still quacking.”
― Jarod Kintz, BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight

“Most salesmen are no-nonsense guys. But I’m not like them. I’m the #1 nonsense salesman in all of Camelot.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“I just called a How's My Driving phone number. Why did someone in Branson, Missouri pick up and try to sell me a timeshare condo?”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“TeleCaller's (cold calling) job is similar to sniper's, wait patiently for the Right Party Connect/Target and make no mistake.”
― honeya

“Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always.”
― honeya

“Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?”
― Ryan Lilly

“This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He’d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously – which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren’t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.”
― Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer

“He could sell snow to an Eskimo.
--Overheard in a Real Estate Office”
― Bob Eckstein, The History of the Snowman: From the Ice Age to the Flea Market

“One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent.”
― Fannie Hurst, Back Street

“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A seller is a dealer. A buyer is a merchant. Why can’t you be a salesman?”
― Alan Maiccon

“Salesmanship dawns when customers deny.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If you don’t have the personality of a salesperson, you have to either practice hard and master it, or you can hire somebody else to do it on your behalf.”
― Pooja Agnihotri

“You cannot win everyday, but make sure you win at-least once in a while.”
― honeya

“If you channel your time and energy into solving problems, money will channel itself into your wallet.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“People buy from people they like and from people who are like them... ;)”
― honeya