A handy telephone tip: Keep a small chalkboard near the phone. That way, when a salesman calls, you can hold the receiver up to it and run your fingernails across it until he hangs up.
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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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