Top 77 Salesman Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Salesman Quotes from famous people such as Blake Mycoskie, Kenny Leon, Mark Waid, August Wilson, Daniel Mays, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe sale

I would have never imagined that I’d become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.
Blake Mycoskie
As an artist, you’re thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn’t happen all the time. Whether you talk about ‘Hamlet’ or ‘Death of a Salesman,’ you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.
Kenny Leon
I’m a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.
Mark Waid
I haven’t read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare – except ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in ninth grade. I’m not familiar with ‘Death of a Salesman.’ I haven’t read Tennessee Williams.
August Wilson
My older brother’s a cricket groundsman, my other brother’s a salesman, and my younger brother’s a trader in the City.
Daniel Mays
Daddy was a salesman and away a lot, always working. My mom took me to the movies on Thursday nights because it was dish night, when they gave you a free dish along with your movie ticket.
Valerie Harper
Nobody is gonna love you like you. You’re gonna be your best salesman.
T.I.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen
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.
Al Franken
I’m in the theater because of two plays: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘Death of a Salesman.’
Mike Nichols
My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you’ve got the ability to believe.
Marilyn Manson
I think I’m not a natural-born salesman, for sure, but If I have a product I really believe in, I can overcome some of the shyness and get through the things that aren’t natural to me.
Phil Knight
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde
When our daughter was born, a light went on for me – there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn’t the dream I was sold on. I’d had enough of it.
Rick Astley
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.
Matthew Lesko
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.
Scott Bakula
I really enjoy theater. I just went to see ‘Death of a Salesman,’ and it knocked me on my ass.
Jason Reitman
‘Death Of A Salesman,’ ‘Streetcar Named Desire,’ these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
Charles Bock
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.
Marc Andreessen
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.
Ian Frazier
Certainly it’s a business and you’ve got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you’ve got two guys doing the same thing, you don’t need one of them.
Jerry Lawler
I’m my own salesman. I can’t let anybody do anything for me.
Fred Durst
I would have never imagined that I’d become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.
Blake Mycoskie
My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
Al Franken
I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.
Noah Hawley
Imagine how foolish you’d look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines – and so can you.
Kevin O’Leary
I consider myself a good communicator and a good salesman.
Dan Schulman
I wasn’t a very good salesman.
Sharon Van Etten
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.
Al Franken
I went into the Verizon store the other day, and the salesman was pretty excited. He was like, ‘Hey Dierks, what can I show you?’ I said, ‘The cheapest, lowest tech phone you have.’ I think he was disappointed. Everybody else was running out for the new iPhone 6, but I got a flip phone.
Dierks Bentley
I’m going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow ’em, we’re going to sell ’em.
Sonny Perdue
Like most people, I was not able to start selling my st

Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
Bruce Coville
Growth is kinda built into everyone’s genes. It’s built into management’s genes, the salesman’s genes, the investors’ desires. People expect companies to grow.
Andy Grove
No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.
Matthew Lesko
We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said ‘me’; it’s always ‘we.’ I am just the big salesman.
Jonathan Anderson
No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.
Matthew Lesko
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
Barbara Corcoran
I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. ‘How are those new cars?’ I asked. ‘They’re fine,’ he said. I thought he’d offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn’t. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn’t buy the car.
Stanley Marcus
In my case, I make it clear to the brand that I’m not a salesman. I can show your product as if I use it every day in my daily life but I won’t tell people to buy it.
Bhuvan Bam
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. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
Al Pacino
I went into the Verizon store the other day, and the salesman was pretty excited. He was like, ‘Hey Dierks, what can I show you?’ I said, ‘The cheapest, lowest tech phone you have.’ I think he was disappointed. Everybody else was running out for the new iPhone 6, but I got a flip phone.
Dierks Bentley
I’m not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
Marc Guggenheim
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
Barbara Corcoran
I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. ‘How are those new cars?’ I asked. ‘They’re fine,’ he said. I thought he’d offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn’t. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn’t buy the car.
Stanley Marcus
Times change. The farmer’s daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
Carey Williams
My first paying gig was a play called ‘The Voice of the Prairie’ at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster – a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s – and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn’t get hired for a year.
Denis O’Hare
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.
Dougray Scott
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde
Certainly it’s a business and you’ve got to have a salesman, but in my mind, when you’ve got two guys doing the same thing, you don’t need one of them.
Jerry Lawler
From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy – I have done it all.
Randeep Hooda
In my case, I make it clear to the brand that I’m not a salesman. I can show your product as if I use it every day in my daily life but I won’t tell people to buy it.
Bhuvan Bam
Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don’t ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.
Merv Griffin
Forty-six years after my parents’ journey from India, here I am, the grandson of a spare auto parts salesman and a file clerk, tapped by the President of the United States to be the nation’s chief communications regulator.
Ajit Pai
At one point my dad called me and said, ‘You have always been a great salesman. I think it’s time you come home and sell swimming pools.’
Courteney Cox
I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you’re playing a car salesman, you don’t want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
Aaron Tveit
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.
Allen Tate
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.
Ashton Kutcher