“Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.” SchoolMotherFatherCompanyHigh SchoolFirmSecretaryGoing To WorkPrintingSalesmanMerchantsClerksWoolStationaryBookkeepers Author:Martin Lewis Perl
“I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.” MotherFatherClassWonderfulMiddleWesternMiddle ClassSalesmanPianistWonderful Family Author:Charles Kimbrough
“I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.” PeopleJobsUsedFatherNaturalCompanySellsVacuumsSalesmanCleanersPayroll Author:Kanye West
“I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."” HomeSchoolFatherJokesSense Of HumorHoneySalesman Author:Betty White
“I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.” IfsMenKindImportantIdeasWholeCultureFatherStuffAirEffectsSellsSellingUnclesSalesmanBoyhood Author:Arthur Miller
“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.” ShouldLongUseFatherPoorClassSuccessfulRichMiddleSubjectsMankindHigherLettersOrganizationDisasterMiddle ClassExecutivesStationsPassagesExposedCalamitySalesmanVicissitudesRobinson Crusoe Author:B. C. Forbes