#sales

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#ad #agency #chances #client #either

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#being #buy #covering #depressed #dissimilar

Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#irritating #mobile #night #out #phone

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales. ↗

— Howard Stern

#bunch #call #choice #crap #editor

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#contingent #prospect #sales #salesman #upon

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. ↗

— Robert Strauss

#increase #sales #sales tax #tax #taxed

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

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

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