Salesmanship Quotes

“If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar enough with the nature of American salesmanship to know that it will be done in the name of the starving millions, in the name of liberty, justice, democracy, and brotherhood, and to free the world from communism. We must, I think, be prepared to see, and to stand by, the truth: that the land should not be destroyed for any reason, not even for any apparently good reason. We must be prepared to say that enough food, year after year, is possible only for a limited number of peaople, and that this possibility can be preserved only by the steadfast, knowledgeable care of those people.”

“Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.”

“There is nothing quite as destructive to the gospel of Jesus Christ as the use of language that dismisses the way Jesus talks and prays and takes up instead the rhetoric of smiling salesmanship or vicious invective.”

“He could sell snow to an Eskimo. --Overheard in a Real Estate Office”

“She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.”

“The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.”

“Sales is my Religion and Customer is my God and I Worship Him, The only thing is that my God is not very happy n generous always.”

“Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.”

“Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.”

“Subliminal influence, is the constant drive to the change in consumer choices.”