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.
To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.
I don’t like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy – I have done it all.
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.
When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read ‘Death of a Salesman.’ I remember feeling incredibly moved by the portrayal of these people and the idea with which Miller broached the whole subject of failure or failed systems, or the way that people are crushed by a system in which they find themselves.
I don’t think any rapper can go back. You can be a car salesman, a bank teller – I mean, really good jobs, and people are still gonna look at you and be like, ‘You used to rap; what happened?’
My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
Before boxing I was a car salesman but I was horrible at it and had to make a living elsewhere.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Unless you’re a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don’t call someone by his name that often.
Unless you’re a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don’t call someone by his name that often.
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.
My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn’t be one.
I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that would in turn sell them to American women, not unlike my father had done.
My older brother’s a cricket groundsman, my other brother’s a salesman, and my younger brother’s a trader in the City.
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
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.
Donald Trump doesn’t necessarily stay mad for very long. He’s a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or from a salesman’s point of view, if he’s not making the sale, you’re of no use to him. But if you suddenly come back into the showroom and are willing to buy, he’s willing to sell.
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