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“Salesmen always need something to sell.”

“The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture that there is no good algorithm for the traveling salesman problem. My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.”

Knows Reason Problem Interest Known Class Possibility Mathematical Theoretical Salesman Algorithms Conjecture

Author:Jack Edmonds

“No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client.”

Way Self Clients Pitcher Salesman

Book:Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

“When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.”

Broken Bottles Salesman Deposits Nickels

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

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

“Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.”

Knows Want Dream Do You Know Salesman Aluminum Siding

Author:Johnny Carson

“Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.' And if it doesn't change the world, then they say, 'There's an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.'”

Ifs World Giving Law Terrible Dollars Deeper Billions Changing The World Mathematician Physicist Laws Of Nature Salesman

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.”

Ifs Want Needs Personality Sells Judged Physicians Lacking Salesman Waitress

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“Many of us think of salespeople as people travelling around with sample kits. Instead, we are all salesman, every day of our lives.”

People Thinking Our Lives Salesman Sample Salespeople

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“I spent 15 years in I-AA football, which is awesome, because you wear every hat in the building at one time. I was everything from a PA announcer to a popcorn salesman to a teacher at a university, as part of the PE department. When you don't have resources, what you do is study as much as you can and try to put it in your own terms. There's no one thing I've invented.”

Trying Years Term Study Teacher One Thing Building Football Resources University Department Hats One Time Salesman Popcorn Announcers

Author:Jim McElwain

“Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?”

Ifs Running Views Support Hell Doors Singing Research Advertising Salesman Spoken Word Persuasive Candor Jingles

Author:David Ogilvy

“Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs- bank vice presidents, insurance salesmen, auditors, secretaries of defense- and you'll realie they all dress the same way, essentially the way the mannequins in the Sears menswear department dress. Now look at the real successes, the people who make a lot more money than you- Elton John, Captain Kangaroo, anybody from Saudi Arabia, Big Bird, and so on. They all dress funny- and they all succeed.”

“What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.”

“They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.”

Havens Changed Products Salesman

Author:Tony Abbott

“A salesman sees a commission.”

Salesman

Author:James Cook

“The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.”

Home Reality Next Actors Given Gone Shoes Auditions Next Day Given Up Salesman Tents Carrots Macy's

Author:Scott Bakula

“I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." Investment managers are in the position of that fishing tackle salesman.”

Thinking Said Reason Stories Guy Position Management Green Sells Investment Fishes Managers Reason Why Fishing Purple Salesman Lure Idiocy Investment Management

Author:Charlie Munger

“Don't live beyond your means. Don't buy more than you can pay for. Don't expect to get rich quick. And don't confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.”

Mean Pay Rich Get Rich Salesman Adviser Get Rich Quick

Author:Charley Reese

“You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.”

Ifs Sells Get Up Salesman Be Your Best

Author:T.I.

“Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.”

Happiness Cases Stuck Discovering Liquor Blonde Salesman Elevators Sample

Author:Johnny Carson

“Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!”

Said Ears Dinner Hats Vans Salesman

Author:Red Buttons

“Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.”

Men Valuable Italian Palaces Renaissance Salesman Continuation Pentagon Italian Renaissance

Author:Norman Mailer

“The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.”

Made Lost Interest Arms Mets Fellows Fortune Caught Storm Bunch Unusual Lightning Modest Salesman Sample

Author:Shelley Berman

“Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower.”

People Ifs Want Persons Country States Would Be Used United United States Military Car Marketing Bullshit Salesman Used Car Car Salesman Kickass Used Car Salesman

Author:Richard Jeni

“A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!”

Giving Said I Can Wife Car Right Now Truth Is Giving Up Machines Bills Sells Fortune My Wife Saving Bus Washing Salesman Maids Laundry New Car Dishwashers Freezer Washing Machines

Author:Joey Bishop

“I don't know what in the hell's going on with cranberries, but they're getting in all the other juices. Whoever the salesman is for cranberries is doing a great job. He's showing up everywhere. Hey, what do you got, some apples? Put some cranberries in there. We'll call it cran-apple and go 50-50. What do you got grapes? How about cran-grape. What do you got mangos? Cran-mango. What do you got pork chops? Cran-chops. Why don't you back off, cran-man. Why don't you take your sales trophy and have a vacation.”

Knows Men Jobs Hell Hey Apples Vacation Juice Grapes Salesman Trophies Great Job Showing Up Pork Pork Chops Cranberries

Author:Brian Regan

“The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.”

Shows Interest Worst Subjects Faults Commit Bores Salesman Prospects

Book:The Unpublished David Ogilvy

Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy

“I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don't think I'm as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people - which is why I think I did so well.”

People Thinking Wells Persons Enjoy Talking Comedy Shoes Selling Salesman Great Times Had A Great Time Selling Shoes

Author:Kevin Hart

“After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.”

Writing Littles Persons Done Bits Quiet Retreat Salesman

Author:Kate Bush

“A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.”

Ifs Masters Argument Arise Offensive Salesman

Book:The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons

“We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.”

Masters Calling Salesman

Author:Napoleon Hill

“If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as a salesman. Schooling, college degrees, intellect, brilliancy, are of no avail to the man who lacks the ability to attract the cooperative efforts of others, thus to create opportunities for himself.”

Ifs Men Opportunity Ability Effort College He Man Degrees Blessed Intellect Native Stations Schooling Salesman Cooperatives College Degree

Book:How To Sell Your Way Through Life

Source: How To Sell Your Way Through Life

“My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.”

Ifs Self Father Taught Benefits Kitchen Units Employed Salesman Unemployed Resourceful Recourse

Author:Neil Oliver

“No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.”

People Looks Happens Born Natural Ability Creating Gold Army Incredibles Financial Accidents Driving Pot Venture Salesman Pot Of Gold

Author:Ronnie Apteker

“I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”

Motivational Willing Lucky Luck Quitting Pursue Vengeance Gave Up Salesman Motivational Sales Sales Team Sales Team Motivational Inspiring Sales

Author:Jill Konrath

“Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.”

Years Used Five Car Years Ago Cooks Thirty Five Years Salesman Used Car Car Salesman Used Car Salesman

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.”

Want Real Used Saws Real Life Comedian Salesman Mildred

Author:Gene Wilder

“I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.”

Order Independent Salesman

Author:Jacques Barzun

“If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.”

Ifs Feels Sells Useless Fraud Commodity Salesman

Author:Erich Fromm

“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.”

Writing Waiting Merit Salesman

Book:Elia Kazan: A Life

Source: Elia Kazan: A Life

“My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.”

Father England South Salesman New England

Author:Nat Hentoff

“[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.”

Father Saws Impressed Salesman

Author:Nat Hentoff

“A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees.”

People Looks Littles Spiritual Type Dresses Spiritual Life Closets Seventies Salesman Countryside Devotee

Author:George Harrison

“Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.”

Jobs Imagination Skills Incredibles Storyteller Salesman

Author:Alex Gibney

“I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump.”

People Thinking Men Giving Dangerous Empty Sick Shining Ideology Vessel Narcissistic Salesman Narcissist

Author:John Dean

“I have a bigger problem at food events when I turn over a wine glass and people insist on pouring me a glass of wine. I have a bigger problem with drunk wine representatives, drunk wine salesmen at food events who keep trying to push a glass in my hand.”

People Trying Problem Wine Drunk Salesman Wine Glass

Author:Andrew Zimmern

“Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.”

Thinking Mother Father Attention Son My Favorite Salesman Arthur

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I have had very little interest in being an icon or visual representation for my music. I like playing music with my bandmates and I have more and more fun onstage these days, but the part where you're supposed to be a salesman for your music is pretty unappealing to me.”

Fun Interest Music Is Representation Salesman

Author:Jorge Elbrecht

“I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I might have wound up like my father, who never did find that which he could devote his life to. He sort of drifted from job to job. He was a traveling salesman, he was a bookkeeper, he was an office manager, he was here, there, there. And however enthusiastic he was at the beginning, his job would bore him. If I hadn't had the writing, I think I might have replicated what he was doing, which would not have been good.”

Thinking Writing Father Office Wounds Architect Enthusiastic Salesman

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax cut, and I, Donald Trump, won't benefit," he expects you to believe that. It doesn't matter that it's not true. It's he said it, you're supposed to believe it. And that's how he's run his entire administration. If he says it, that makes it true.”

Believe Reality Running Cutting Taxes Salesman

Author:David Cay Johnston

“I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.”

People Thinking Knows Jobs Guy Magician Salesman Stood Up

Author:Ashton Kutcher

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