#esma

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#briefings #corps #daily #day-to-day #house

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#almighty #enlightened #freedom #instrument #men

I’ve always envied flies. Think about it: you’re a fly, your name is an action, the very thing you do all the time. It’s your innate action in life, the thing you were born to do. It’s like a salesperson who was named Sell. I love that. If I ever met a salesperson who said, “Hi, I’m Sell,” I’d reply, “And I’m sold!. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #salesman #funny

Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#doing #fellow #fine #fixed #governor

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#gift #i #i think #like #mouth

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#asked #bear #how #interest #just

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#living #our #salesmanship #salespeople #selling

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

— James Cash Penney

#perfection #practice #requires #salesmanship #study

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

— James Cash Penney

#best #conscientious #go #handled #merchandise

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

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father