Sentences with phrase «as a salesman at»

Based on everything I've seen, learned and experienced myself — as a salesman at all levels, from knocking on doors to sell books to overseeing our booming sales operation at Pipedrive — I know this: When you master activity - based sales, you'll put yourself on the best possible track to success.

And when Nelson tries to prove himself as a salesman at the Toyota agency, by marketing old gas - guzzling convertibles, the results are at once uproarious and pathetic.

Not exact matches

Manlove, who says he sold over $ 10 million in cannabis product as lead salesman at Tradiv, called his roster of clients — cannabis growers, retailers, and manufacturers — and told them he was starting a new business.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

The son of a cotton broker, Perot started his career at IBM as a salesman in Texas.

LaVorgna is a hack who has spent his career on Wall Street preaching fairytales about the economy as a means of assisting the snakeoil salesmen at his bank in their efforts to stuff as much high - commission junk into investor accounts as possible.

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

I would bear in mind that a «gentleman» that acts in a way that at one point in time would have been crushing to Caryn and has not learned from that and changed is not safe for abuse survivors to be around and is not a gentleman but a scumbag snake oil salesman masquerading as a gentleman and deserves to be treated as such in protection of the innocent.

And the sly salesman says pointing at the neighbors empty arms «Sure sure, but you are holding in your hands the same type of clothing as I am, though not the quality... Are you not trying to sell such phony finery?»

It was a one woman show at the time as she was the baker, buyer, salesman, porter and delivery driver.

Packaging is often described as «the silent salesman», creating subconscious connections with consumers at the crucial time of purchase.

In the spring of 1997, around the time that Hughes, who worked as a salesman for a video company, abused three boys at once in his office — he molested the boys one at a time while the other two watched — the mother of another victim was folding her son's underwear and putting it in a drawer when she saw, hidden among the clothes, a letter written by her son to his girlfriend.

Watson, who had various jobs, including one as a plumbing - supplies salesman, was single and lived here and there, at times in parents» garages.

That Friday he worked shifts at both of his jobs as a salesman, at Dillard's department store and in the appliance department of Best Buy.

He arrives at FIFA resembling nothing so much as a nebbish, insecure encyclopedia salesman and he never seems to really grow into his suits.

Pele was here at Anfield for 45 minutes, in his latest role as a salesman for an American sandwich shop.

I recognize that NOCSAE's decision may have some technical merit; and that it may be to some degree be necessary to protect the integrity of its helmet standard by weeding out what one football helmet representative characterized in an email to me as «snake oil salesmen» marketing supplemental padding products that, despite their overblown claims, likely do little if anything to reduce, much less prevent, concussions, and may, at least in theory, compromise the ability of football helmets to protect players as the manufacturers intended.

After Zhainab encourages him to apply for a sales position at Lastavita Foods, which he gets despite having a failed interview, Ayan begins working there as a salesman head for his town.

Be positive If you get a strong indication you're going to get dropped at the reshuffle — by which I mean correspondence from the PM, in which he says you're a useful as a Gillette salesman at a feminist rally — don't take this to mean you're on your way out.

In November alone, prime minister David Cameron visited the authoritarian leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as a salesman for BAE Systems» Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, while the Emir of Kuwait has been treated to a state banquet at Windsor Castle at which another guest was BAE's chair, Dick Olver.

My final verdict on the matter is that juice cleanses are a complete and total scam, and that anyone who partakes in the business of selling them is ignorant about their own product at best, and a slimy, unethical snake oil salesman at worst and should be publicly exposed for their BS and probably fined and / or jailed for participating in a scam that misinforms the public and can put people's health in danger while touting their products as «healthy lifestyle alternatives.»

With her genuine smile, earthy beauty, and striking green eyes, Melina Kanakaredes staked her claim on daytime television in The Guiding Light before expanding her talents to numerous other popular series and, eventually, the silver screen.Born and raised in Akron, OH, the second - generation Greek - American was the third daughter of an insurance salesman and homemaker who began her career as an actress in a community theater production of Tom Sawyer at the age of eight.

Our hero continues quixotically reporting for work as an insurance salesman — in an office where casual dress is now welcome every day and a volunteer is sought to serve as CFO — at least until a suicide lands on his windshield at his rooftop parking spot.

Specializing in playing shambling, cantankerous cynics, Walter Matthau, with his jowly features, slightly stooped posture, and seedy, rumpled demeanor, looked as if he would be more at home as a laborer or small - time insurance salesman than as a popular movie star equally adept at drama and comedy.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

Actress Danielle Fishel grew up in Yorba Linda, CA, as the daughter of a medical equipment salesman, and entered the limelight at age ten with an appearance in a doll commercial.

But Last Days works only when it deviates from this pattern, as it does in a hilarious scene depicting the rock star's friendly yet indifferent agreement to buy space in the yellow pages from a clueless door - to - door salesman (Thadeus A. Thomas, the movie's only perfectly cast actor), or when it focuses on other members of Blake's entourage, or when the camera retreats at a snail's pace from the mansion for what feels like eternity.

After one too many concussions, hockey enforcer Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is forced to give up his aspirations of going to the big show and settle into a buttoned down career as an insurance salesman at the urging of his pregnant wife Eva (Alison Pill).

The film sees the likeable duo as recently laid off salesman who decide to comfront technology for the first time by conning there way into working at internet giant Google.

The problem is that Benjamin is just seasonal help and, after Christmas, he'll be back at his more mundane job as an office supply salesman, although he does dream of becoming a famous songwriter.

Duets is the first feature about karaoke I've seen, and Byrum uses it as a suggestive metaphor for the dreams of three sets of characters who've lost their way in terms of their personal and family identities: a karaoke hustler (Huey Lewis) who meets his daughter — a Vegas showgirl played by Paltrow — for the first time at the funeral of her mother; a traveling salesman (Paul Giamatti) who flips his lid after flying to Houston instead of Orlando and then going home to an indifferent wife and kids, and who eventually splits and hooks up with an ex-con (Andre Braugher); and a young cabdriver (Scott Speedman) who reluctantly agrees to drive a waitress and part - time hooker (Maria Bello) out west.

Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, and Tommy Lee Jones star as boardroom casualties in what, at times, resembles a cross between «Up in the Air» (minus the fun parts and the romance) and «Death of a Salesman.»

The selection also includes a number of films that premiered at previous festivals, including «Loving,» Andrea Arnold «s raucous «American Honey,» Paul Verhoeven «s subversive «Elle,» Park Chan - wook «s kinky «The Handmaiden,» Jim Jarmusch «s quiet «Paterson,» Asghar Farhadi «s dramatic «The Salesman» and Maren Ade's funny and touching «Toni Erdmann,» all of which screened in Cannes, as well as the Sundance hits «The Birth of a Nation» (from Nate Parker) and «Manchester by the Sea» (Kenneth Lonergan).

Farhadi's screenplay, also awarded at Cannes, weaves its plot around Arthur Miller's «Death of a Salesman» as the onscreen couple stars in an amateur production of the play.

Ironically, the film loses its way when Schmidt arrives at his destination of Denver, where his fed - up daughter (Hope Davis) is getting married to what Schmidt sees as an unsuitable match: a balding, ponytailed waterbed salesman (Dermot Mulroney).

The Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who boycotted the event in protest at Trump's travel bans, won best foreign language film for The Salesman in what was widely seen as a rebuke to the White House.

He reestablishes his old business by exposing hair tonic salesman Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen) as a fraud and a second - rate shaver, and soon enough, Turpin's weaselly assistant Beadle (who else but Timothy Spall) has his master at Sweeney's shop.

But Krasinski's work as paper salesman Jim Halpert elaborated beyond the original comic idea of glancing at the camera in pained recognition, and became an essential part of adding to the show's deafening, deadpan awkwardness.

John Ritter (Sling Blade, Tadpole) stars as Roy Knables, a mediocre plumbing supplies salesman by day, a couch potato at all other times.

The trout dinner, planned at a classical concert where Ross's cellist daughter is to perform, is hosted by the doctor and his painter wife; the guests are an out - of - work salesman (Fred Ward), who stopped off at the greasy spoon where the waitress works before going fishing, and his wife (Anne Archer), who dresses as a clown for children's parties and previously turned up at the hospital where the doctor works, after being stopped and sexually harassed by the cop.

This was my husband Archie and my second new vehicle purchase at South Oak Dodge Chrysler Jeep with Al Kotarba as our salesman.

as going straight to detail and would be ready in a couple of hours, as I informed the salesman afternoons are very busy for me and I would not be able to be there, so the salesman then waits an hour and a half and then called me back to confirm I still want the vehicle, not sure why he thought I changed my mind at that point?

Maybe you should be sat in the turbo charged M5 at Santa Pod, as I did and rev it above 4000rpm, with the door open, like the salesman told me to cos thats when the exhaust baffles open and you can hear the V8 then.

My husband and I were very happy with our salesman, Neal, as well as the whole buying experience at this dealership.

As a salesman and bartender for many years I know what it takes to provide excellent service and the team at Medved proved to be exceptional on all levels.

Our salesman made us feel right at home and a fun experience for us as well.

However, my experience at Tri-County Toyota, with Drew Cooper as my salesman, was the most enjoyable car buying experience I have ever had.

When we arrived at the dealership we met with Josh Pomles who was as friendly & helpful as any salesman could be.

This is the 3rd Toyota my wife and I have leased with Fred as our Salesman (5th overall at Tri-County).

Our family was looking at a new Prius C. Unfortunately they didn't have any right away... but our salesman Fred Whitehawk made sure we could set up an appointment to see the cars as soon as they came into the dealership.