Sentences with phrase «as a salesman in»

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

As a salesman in a small store, Alan is bored.

Weitzer's father joined the company as a salesman in the early 1960s, and he helped the company develop its frozen seafood importing operations.

Co-owners Chuck Carvette and Peter Brooks started the company in 1981 after working as salesmen in the corn - refining industry.

The couple's son - in - law, Jason Brown, joined the company as a salesman in 2005.

I worked as a salesman in a garment shop.

Plus Jamie has found success working as a salesman in random department stores.

He would describe himself as a salesman in development clothing and has always tried to maintain a close relationship with clients, ensuring the company stays attuned to market needs and ahead of the competition in terms of product innovation and development.

Having entered real estate as a salesman in 1968, this is my 38th year in...

Not exact matches

Imagine if «sandwich artist» became a synonym for deceitfulness, just as once honorable professions like snake oil salesman and ambulance chaser did in previous decades.

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.

Three years earlier, Cramton quit his job as a furniture salesman to focus on building the company, which he had been running part time out of his basement in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

If you spend any amount of time there, in addition to other landmarks such as the famous ball that descends on New Year's Eve and, of course, the Naked Cowboy, you will also notice aggressive salesmen roaming the streets selling their goods and services.

As someone deeply entrenched in this industry, I can say from experience that merchant services reps aren't called the «used car salesman of financial services» for nothing.

After a stint as a car salesman in the late 1980s, Benson now owns Hyundai and Mitsubishi dealerships in South Brunswick, N.J..

He has worked as a car salesman from the age of 17, and also worked as a holiday rep in Ibiza.

Frank Perdue was known nationally as the salesman who built one of the largest family businesses in the country but his greatest success might have been overcome his reluctance to even talk to people.

Still, he made the best of it, peeling potatoes in his father's restaurant as a kid, and later working as a car salesman and a bail bondsman.

His 12 - week London campaign in 1954 defied expectations, drawing more than 2 million people and the respect of the British, many of whom had derided him before his arrival as little more than a slick salesman.

Canfield cites his children as examples — some of them always loved drawing, while one started becoming a salesman in middle school.

I numbly watched as a rambling salesman in his early 20s clicked through dozens — wait, dozens and dozens — of screens, boxes and windows in a monotone, dismembered voice.

Wesner spent years as a travelling book salesman, developing a specialty in Amish communities.

Then, while working as a paint salesman, Palmer quickly got his game back in order and won the 1954 U.S. Amateur Championship.

By its heyday in the 1940s and»50s, the company employed tens of thousands of salesmen, and Fuller's status as a legendary pioneer of direct sales could not be assailed.

I learned how to be more Zen as a door - to - door salesman, and I've carried it throughout my career in all forms of sales and sales management.

As the actor Alec Baldwin's real estate salesman advised in that classic scene from Glengarry Glen Ross: «Always be closing.»

With undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University, Blankfein worked briefly as a tax lawyer before joining J. Aron & Co. as a currency salesman in 1982.

The salesman offering two pieces would, as in the first regime, actually hand over only one of them half the time.

Geoff Winthrop, Executive VP and partner of Acquirent and Bill Johnson, CEO of Salesvue discuss their experience as career salesmen and how having good, accurate data helps drive success in growing their business.

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.

Kalanick, a natural salesman who sold knives door - to - door as a high school student one summer, helped bring in investment from Michael Ovitz, cofounder of the talent agency CAA, and Ron Burkle, the supermarket magnate.

Despite his accomplishments as a success coach, best selling author, and top salesman, in 2007 Hal's life fell apart again.

«The Temporary Order to Cease and Desist found that BitConnect was not registered as a dealer or salesman of securities in North Carolina and offered investments called the BitConnect Lending Program and the BitConnect Staking Program.

Lembong joined Widodo's team as trade minister, but is now using his background as an investment banker to act as the country's offshore salesman in the investment portfolio.

Indeed, just as the world is filled with selfappointed salesmen for God, it is also filled with evangelical atheists who are equally determined to convert anyone who will listen to their belief system, their faith in the non-existence of God.

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 shoIn 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 shoin sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

The plot of the film is deceptively simple: Elizabeth and Tony Jordan (played by Priscilla Shirer and T.C. Stallings), appear to have it all — living in an upper class neighborhood with their daughter Danielle (Alena Pitts), money is rolling in from Tony's job as a successful pharmaceutical salesman.

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In some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They Like Jesus but Not the Church), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyerIn some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They Like Jesus but Not the Church), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyerin books like unChristian and They Like Jesus but Not the Church), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyerin our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyers.

Yes, I know that God can use all sorts of methods to bring people into the Kingdom, but as this sign shows, door to door evangelists are lumped together in most people's minds with door to door salesmen and door - knocking politicians.

Yesterday, in Sunday Superlatives, I included a quote from Mark Twain in which he referred to a snake oil salesman as an «idiot,» but no one left an angry comment warning me of hell based on Jesus» teaching in Matthew 5:22 that «if you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court; and if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.»

We also need to surrender the commercial metaphor, as though all the people in the world constituted a vast religious market, potential consumers of Christianity waiting for the right salesmen and saleswomen to arrive and convince them to buy the product.

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.

They embraced MITT ROMNEY, the same guy THEY said was nothing but a wishy - washy salesman who'll slit the throat of anyone in his way and say anything to get elected (and proved as much during the primary).

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?»

Ben E. Keith started as a salesman and delivered produce using a horse and buggy in 1906 when the company was known as Harkrider - Morris Co..

We currently have 23 salaried associates and our salesmen are not on commission as we want them involved in all accounts.

I won't tell a salesman's white lie to all you deep - fry lovers out there and claim that baking is just as good as crispy, battered somethings fried in oil, but I honest - to - goodness love the crunchy texture of a spiced crumb coating on oven fried food.

Marc joined Blue Whale in 1992 as a salesman for the UK market, before moving onto the Spanish market two years later.