#esma

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

— Oscar Wilde

#deal #great #great deal #knows #much

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

— Carey Williams

#change #daughter #farmer #jokes #now

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#elder #election #fastest #lose #politician

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. ↗

— John Grierson

#becomes #consequently #directive #forms #information

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow. ↗

— Andy Grove

#companies #desires #everyone #expect #genes

I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#andrew #cameron #care #conservative #david

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#firm #follow #follows #guiding #having

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#statesmanship #equality

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. ↗

— Morris Hite

#bother #could #face-to-face #his #mass

I had a father who was a traveling salesman. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#had #i #salesman #traveling #who