Sales Profession Quotes

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

I'm a dealer. That's exactly right. I'm a used car dealer.

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

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

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.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

My dad was always in sales. My mom had a heart for the ages. Worked in recreation, doing rehabilitation in nursing homes. Very nice, practical folks who were very proud of me but had no inclination toward the stage in any way.

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.

My older brother's a cricket groundsman, my other brother's a salesman, and my younger brother's a trader in the City.

I'm a sporting goods guy.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education