As others have pointed out, he was a great salesman, but a genius?

There now, I thought, was a man who would have made a great salesman.

We only know that some potentially great salesmen feel impelled to do so.

"Are you afraid of someone who's a great salesman?"

But like a great salesman, he has a knack for instant intimacy.

Like all truly great salesmen, he makes you believe his won line because he believes it, too.

As you would expect from a great salesman, he has a kind of natural exuberance.

He was a great salesman, one of the most persuasive individuals I have ever met.

"He wasn't a great salesman, but he made himself infinitely useful by taking jobs nobody else wanted."

"The good lawyer is the great salesman," Reno has said.