My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.
A salesman sees a commission.
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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.
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!'
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.
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.
To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
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?
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
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.
Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.
Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.
I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.
