Definition of Salesman

Salesman

One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.

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Anything, Goods, Is, Merchandise, Occupation, One, Or, Sell, To, Who, Whose

Salesman Quotations

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone

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

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
Bela Lugosi

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

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
James Cash Penney

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.
Herb Ritts

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
Herb Ritts

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.
Henry Kravis

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.
Elia Kazan

The good lawyer is the great salesman.
Janet Reno

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 have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.
Brian Eno

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.
Martin Lewis Perl

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
Barbara Corcoran

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
Emanuel Celler

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

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.
Matthew Lesko

I think basically an actor is a salesman.
Paul Lynde

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.
David Hyde Pierce

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

I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
Early Wynn

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.
Shepard Smith

Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
Carey Williams

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Salesman Translations

salesman in Afrikaans is verkoopsman
salesman in Dutch is verkoper
salesman in French is vendeur
salesman in Italian is venditore
salesman in Spanish is vendedor

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