Phil Jackson

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

American Coach

Stanley Marcus

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.

American Businessman

Jonathan Anderson

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.

Irish Designer

Mark Cuban

I have stocked shelves, waited on tables, and bartended. I have been a salesperson at many levels. Each giving me a unique view of what made a company successful and, even more importantly, what made a company fail.

Rick Astley

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.

English Musician

Zig Ziglar

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.

American Author

Jeffrey Gitomer

When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It's the highest praise your boss can give someone on your team.

George Carlin

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

American Comedian

Woody Allen

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

American Director

Daniel Woodrell

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

American Writer

The word 'salesman' traditionally refers to men, but today can refer to any gender.

Gender Neutral

'Salesman' often implies the use of persuasion and interpersonal skills to sell products.

Sell Strategy

The term 'salesman' may imply specialization in a particular type of product or service.

Industry Specific

Used figuratively, 'salesman' describes someone persuasive in non-commercial contexts.

Metaphorical Use

'Salesman' can suggest strong belief and passion for the ideas being promoted.

Passionate Advocate

In figurative use, 'salesman' might imply visionary or innovative qualities.

Visionary Connotations

 from solving the famous traveling salesman problem, to scheduling computing tasks and optimizing Internet searches, to enabling groups of robots to search a minefield or a burning building collectively, without any central control. But you can observe these fascinatingly simple, yet effective, processes directly through some simple experiments,

Inside the ant colony -...

 is that it's so important to find your own voice, a voice that's authentic and true to you. Don't try to channel your sister-in-law just because she's a great salesperson or your neighbor who tells a great joke if that's not who you are. Give up this notion that it's tooting your own horn. Make it about the other party.

Know your worth, and...

 starters the salesman is a nicely dressed good-looking guy creating what's known as the halo effect people's first impression is that he seems knowledgeable and authoritative simply because of how he looks second he's taking advantage of expert bias traveled the world looking for minerals such as

The Con Artist Handbook...

 We partnered with private companies, asking, which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs? And who's going to earn the most money? In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn't social intelligence.

Grit: the power of...

 who agree most strongly with statements like, "I love helping others," which suggests the doctor you ought to trust is the one who came to med school with no desire to help anybody. And then in sales, too, the lowest revenue accrued in the most generous salespeople.

Are you a giver or a...

 When I was perhaps six years old, I went to a shoe store with my mother and my brother. And at the end of buying our shoes, the salesman said to us that we could each have a balloon to take home. My brother wanted a red balloon, and I wanted a pink balloon.

Love, no matter what PIPE...

 The monk and salesman laughed, both impressed by this honourable trickster. From that day on, the tanuki became an esteemed guest of the temple. He could frequently be found telling tales and performing tricks that amused even the most serious monks.

The Japanese myth of the...

 which children would advance farthest in competition. We partnered with private companies, asking, "Which of these salespeople is going to keep their jobs? And who's going to earn the most money?" In all those very different contexts,

The strongest predictor...

 every customer in that story coming at her every buyer buyer from her she's a phenomenal salesperson I've never met an entrepreneur who couldn't really sell in that charisma card is the big gun that helps them sell that's what their

Entrepreneurs come from...

 and solve the traveling salesman problem. It is a biological computer. As such, it has been mathematically modeled, algorithmically analyzed. It's been sonified, replicated, simulated. World over, teams of researchers