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Source: Death of a Salesman

“Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.”

Book:The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“It's not how I view being a salesman. It's how I live being a salesman.”

“It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.”

Ifs Parent Church Dark Rooms Passing Passings Upset Introducing Accused Acquaintance Salesman Parking Passing Through Encyclopedia Furnaces Parking Lot

Book:Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!

Source: Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!

“A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.”

“The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed, if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.”

“I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.”

Years Littles Wanted Deals Pay Filled Studios Eight Intense Department Pie Crew Fbi Salesman Props Wagons Sold Out Tarts

Author:Shirley Temple

“Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].”

Men Giving Helping Jobs Force Steps Support Failing Pressure Workers Homeless Homelessness Salesman Transient Migrants Giving Help Migrant Workers

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.”

People Looks Used Left Rooms Car Suits Shouting Salesman Biscuits Bowie Used Car Car Salesman Used Car Salesman

Author:Billy Childish

“Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.”

Life Helping Home Design Illusion Symbols Fallen Goods Cash Now And Then Coincidence Parallels Salesman

Author:Glen Duncan

“The devil is a cross between a really good used-car salesman and a game-show host, but with a lot more style and charm.There's a little Cary Grant thrown in there too.”

Littles Shows Used Games Car Style Devil Crosses Charm Thrown Grants Host Salesman Game Shows Used Car Car Salesman Used Car Salesman

Author:Ray Wise

“I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers.”

Looks Brother Romney Salesman Brooks Brooks Brothers

Author:David Letterman

“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.”

Ifs Believe Kind Mean Enough Care Products Selling Guarantees Offering Salesman

Author:Matthew Lesko

“A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.”

People Thinking Opposites Attractive Salesman Salesperson

Author:John Turturro

“To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.”

Drunk Height Impossibility Salesman

Author:Honore de Balzac

“No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.”

Art Games Deals Dog Wind Skills Speed Tricks Prey Rivals Salesman Hawks Afar Improvising Detours Tripping Stags

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.”

“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.”

People Jobs Used Father Natural Company Sells Vacuums Salesman Cleaners Payroll

Author:Kanye West

“Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.”

Ifs Views Willing Window Customers Organized Department Hats Etc Owners Complaints Cleaning Better Off Small Business Salesman Cleaners Business Owners Small Business Owners Bookkeepers

Author:Tony Evans

“Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.”

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Author:John Caudwell

“From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.”

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Author:Brian Dennehy

“Death Of A Salesman is a great acting job.”

Jobs Acting Salesman

Author:Ken Stott

“The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore. Foster any attempt to talk about other things; the longer you stay the better you get to know the prospect, and the more you will be trusted.”

Knows Worst Faults Commit Trusted Bores Salesman

Author:David Ogilvy

“Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics, which means that if you are interested in starting a word-of-mouth epidemic , your resources ought to be solely concentrated on these three groups. No one else matters.”

Ifs Mean Matter Law Three Groups Keys Ought Mouths Resources Areas Responsible Starting Salesman Epidemics Concentrating Word Of Mouth Connectors Mavens

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“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."”

Home School Father Jokes Sense Of Humor Honey Salesman

Author:Betty White

“I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.”

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Author:Ian Frazier

“What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”

Ifs World America Literature Grows Style Sells South British Bridges Prose Convince Tobacco Brooklyn Salesman Tomatoes American Literature Brooklyn Bridge

Book:Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

Source: Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves.”

Income Volume Salesman Salesmanship

Author:Walter Russell

“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.”

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Author:Arthur Miller

“Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.”

Sophisticated Salesman

Author:Martin Gilbert

“[Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.”

“Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.”

Reason Law Difficult Loses Justice Stores Selling Beer Expensive Marijuana Minors License Liquor Salesman Overhead Liquor Stores

Book:Right Reason: A Collection

Source: Right Reason: A Collection

“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.”

“I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.”

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Author:Shay Carl

“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.”

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Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.”

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Author:Greg Kinnear

“There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native Americans]. When an Indian guy does well, he's a warrior, even now. He could be a computer salesman, but if he does well, he's a warrior. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.”

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Author:Sherman Alexie

“I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Stores Notebook Salesman I Am Pretty

Book:Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

“I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.”

Jobs Week Months Paint Credit Managers Eleven Salesman Day Jobs

Author:Mike Royer

“Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!”

Humor Hands Funny Baseball Salesman

Author:Jerry Coleman

“A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.”

Writing Book Agents Salesman Literary Agents

Author:John Hodgman

“There is always room at the top - after the investigation.”

Rooms Swim Swimming Investigation Daily Motivation Salesman Motivational Success Motivational Sales Inspirational Success Sales Team Drive And Success Sales Team Motivational Reaching The Top

Book:The Complete Cynic

Source: The Complete Cynic

“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!'”

“When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek.”

Tongue Cheeks Pipe Salesman

Author:Edward Norton

“Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.”

People Used Certain Car Personality Assuming Occupation Librarian Salesman Accountants Used Car Stewardess Car Salesman Used Car Salesman Certified Public Accountant

Book:The Giant's House

Source: The Giant's House

“Fear is the greatest salesman.”

Salesman

Author:Robert Klein

“I had a father who was a traveling salesman.”

Father Salesman

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.”

Play Used Acting Watches Car Guitar Salesman Car Salesman

Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.

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