#sale

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. ↗

— Allen Tate

#because #cannot #even #failure #fictitious

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? ↗

— Tertullian

#jerusalem

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#britain #different #except #factor #i

There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#salem-falls #love

To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me shoes. To others I am known as Buddy. These are people who dwell in bars and wonder if I’ve got a problem or what it is that I am “looking at.” And to still others, who are in that same bar, standing just off to the side, I am “Get Him! ↗

— Demetri Martin

#humor #names #salesmen #humor

A brick could be used to increase your annual sales. But before you can sell, you’ve got to buy. For just $9.99 I’ll show you how a common brick can transform you into an uncommon salesman. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #buy

Excellent posture is the most important personality trait in an effective salesman. It allows him to pass for a vertebrate. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #personality #posture #salesmen #vertebrates

A man with nothing to sell is the most unprincipled of self-promoters. The only thing of value he has to offer a woman is his clothes. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #nudity #principles #salesmen #self-promotion

Sözcüklerin arasında da bir hiyerarşi, bir protokol ve hatta asalet unvanları vardır ya da tam tersine bazı sözcükler ayaktakımına mensup olduklarını gösteren izler taşırlar. ↗

— José Saramago

#ayaktakımı #hiyerarşi #izler #sözcük #sözcükler