Salesman Quotes

“White people scare the crap out of me... I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord... never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I`ve never heard a black person say: We`re going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here— have a nice day!”

"No, I grew up very middle class. My parents didn`t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn`t have a career as such, he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life." (interview with Jay MacDonald, in an article "Fame & Fortune: Comedian Al Franken." [February 2006)

Rosie O`Donnell called me a snake oil salesman. And, you know, coming from Rosie, that`s pretty low because when you look at her and when you see the mind, the mind is weak. I don`t see it. I don`t get it. I never understood -- how does she even get on television?

You know, this business is pure luck. It truly is. There is a tangible amount of luck that is necessary for a successful career, and the only way that luck happens is if you`re prepared for it and you stick with it. If you drop out of the scene, your opportunity for luck diminishes greatly. No one`s going to say, `Hey you`re an insurance salesman. Come and do this movie.`

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn`t know my dad very well.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I read Arthur Miller`s Death of a Salesman, and I could recognise that world. My dad had been a salesman for the last 30 years of his career.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

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

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.

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

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.

I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don`t lead very pleasant lives and don`t like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn`t what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, `Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don`t just have your vacation to look forward to.` And I love movies.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Steve Wynn, 64, is not only a great salesman of insane ideas and a clever real estate player but also the gaming industry`s most brilliant designer.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile 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.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.