Sentences with phrase «oil salesman»

Gain — I feel sorry for for thinking that someone like me who knows how to decipher and isolate what a target market truly values, and then deliver it in spades — with integrity — is the activity of a slick, snake - oil salesman.

The stereotypical» snake ‑ oil salesman» doesn't exist for long in the real world of real estate.

The stereotype of the seller of swamp land in Florida, or of the Brooklyn Bridge remain in the general lexicon of public mythology, much in the same way that the snake oil salesman of lore exists.

Consider seminars such as Breaking Down Silos, where you can get some practical tools and strategies for successful networking without feeling like a snake oil salesman.

Not sure how to network for a new job without feeling like a snake oil salesman?

Do your research, ask questions and you will be able to stay clear of the Snake Oil Salesman.

Author: The pseudonymous authors of this blog are Super Sized, a reformed Chicago BigLaw associate; Grass Fed, a still - suffering Chicago BigLaw associate; More Pie, BigLaw's counsel; and Ground Goodness, a BigLaw snake - oil salesman.

Kind of like looking at the snake oil salesman and thinking, «I can be that healthy and good looking if I use his product».

There needs to be some degree of personality and differentiation to avoid running smack into the listener's marketing filters and looking like a snake - oil salesman.

I agree with Max and Jordan although there is no need to create posts that read like you are a snake oil salesman.

Recalling that I characterized «Girma» as a «Snake Oil Salesman» in my Jane Austen parody post in the «Sense about Sensitivity Thread» in April, 2013, I looked up why I did and discovered why I still DO think Girma is a slick operator:

The greatest proponent of this argument being the planet's most accomplished snake oil salesman and Nobel Laureate, Al Gore.

Anyone purporting to know the «global temperature» to tenths of a degree over the past 1000 years is a snake oil salesman.

You've just described yourself as a professional liar... unlike your projection of your lack of integrity onto climate scientists, I'm sure your self - identification as a snake oil salesman is 100 % correct.

He's the snake oil salesman who said that the CRU emails «had no effect on science» because he is fully at ease with corruption of data in his screaming global warming doom mongering, kept in his position by his anti coal nuclear interests.

And not a one of the so - called «scientists» will cop to being a snake oil salesman, because (in their own minds) the ends justify the means.

The snake oil salesman will not accept science that says his product is worthless, nor will the climate scientists accept that they are using junk science to produce fear mongering.

Advertising has always had it's share of the snake - oil salesman, because nobody knows exactly how — or if — it works.

A retrospective reveals him as designer, dreamer, architect, college professor, a snake - oil salesman, and a a prototype for Modernism in America.

This list comes not from some snake - oil salesman — but from a compilation of decades of veterinarian feedback.

He never got sick... and that was the start of the phrase «snake oil salesman.»

The unfortunate reality is that the uninformed don't know that this snake - oil salesman has called 14 out of the last 2 bear markets.

Anyone telling you that you will certainly withdraw at lower tax rates is a snake - oil salesman.

It's a fine line between raising interest and coming across as an obsessed snake oil salesman, but it's a process you refine over time!

I guess I'm just irked when those in my profession sound more like the snake oil salesman of old than the professionals we are.

The traditional publishing industry has been calling you Darth Vadar, Tony Soprano, and Snake Oil Salesman.

Not only is it a lot easier to get noticed as part of a group, but you feel less like a snake oil salesman promoting someone else's work than constantly bigging up your own.

Saying you can guarantee a bestselling book (especially for cheap) is a snake oil salesman's promise of a tonic that cures all ills.

Surrounded by public relations staff and consultants and aided by «media training» sessions, the proponents of charter schools, the Common Core, the Common Core Testing scam and various anti-teacher initiatives exude the aura of well - prepared snake oil salesman.

No, this is not the pitch of a carnival barker or snake oil salesman, but a crazy (or maybe crazy smart?)

We totally buy the charming snake oil salesman elements of Flo's character, and even when the movie turns sappy at the end, he lends the piece a sense of dignity.

Their problem was and is their guru - to - the - stars dad Stafford (John Cusack), a snake - oil salesman if ever there were one, and their avaricious mom Christina (Olivia Williams).

As previously announced, James Franco will play a fast - talking oil salesman who flees a traveling circus in a hot air balloon and winds up in Oz, where three sisters are battling for control.

The bastards fooled me just like a snake oil salesman fooled the infirmed (notice the snake similarity?).

Dr. William G. Davies, an infamous snake - oil salesman, started his career as a promising medical student.

By arming ourselves with knowledge, we will never fall victim to another snake oil salesman again.

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.»

Of course, I'm sure you'll refer to him as some kind of quack or snake oil salesman, because he doesn't follow what is engrained in nutrition courses and books, and guidelines thrown together by the USDA, which by the way, has done nothing to make us healthier as a population.

I don't want to feel like I'm buying health information from a carnival barker, or snake - oil salesman.

Feeling a little like someone getting ripped off by a snake - oil salesman, I walked into the office and asked the acupuncturist, «So, how do I know this is really going to work?»

Noted snake oil salesman and potential New York Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. was profiled by Maureen Dowd in the NYT over the weekend and told her he rejects the «ex-gay» myth (which, of course, is... Read

The «snake oil salesman» moniker was given to Ford by Empire State Pride Agenda executive director Alan van Capelle following Ford's announcement that he's suddenly for marriage equality despite voting twice for the federal marriage amendment.

Another snake oil salesman... Obama needs to take action against this con man.

Noted snake oil salesman and potential New York Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. was profiled by Maureen Dowd in the NYT over the weekend and told her he rejects the «ex-gay» myth (which, of course, is a good thing):

The question of what Empire State taxpayers are getting in exchange for these subsidies is never clear and compelling, despite regular claims of an economic bonanza that would sound quite normal coming from the lips of a supply - side snake - oil salesman.

(http://www.cfinst.org/pr/prRelease.aspx?ReleaseID=216) People were engaged because lehman collapsed and they hated GW Bush — not cause these two snake oil salesman have discovered the nile.

«We have been inclined to believe whatever a snake oil salesman offers without a proof of evidence,» he said.

Meanwhile Stewart Jackson, the parliamentary private secretary to the Brexit secretary David Davis made his feelings clear in a tweet that dismissed Blair as a «snake oil salesman».

Consequently spending on vanity projects, duplication of services, consultancy fees and the wares of a multitude of «snake - oil salesman» has increased, while spending on teachers has decreased.

Blair the snake oil salesman on @BBCr4today will do much to boost the strong case for #Brexit surely