Phone Sales Quotes

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

I had this job where I had to cold call people, and that was terrifying to me, and that was on a far different level than invading their space.

What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?

The worst job I ever had was as a telemarketer for, oh, I don't know, I think I made it about 90 minutes. I quit before lunch. I went in around 10:30 or 11 and said, 'I can't do this.' It was horrific. I had too many people yell at me within that 90 minutes to be able to continue.

I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take 'no' one more time. I could not take the rejection.

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

I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.

I was actually really good at telemarketing.

We're a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones - apart from the iPhone - can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we'd only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn't do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into 'Facebook phones.' That's what Facebook Home is.

I was fascinated to see that if you knew what you were doing, you could sell a $3,000 computer system over the phone.