I Am A Salesman ...

ViRedd · #1 11-09-2007, 04:42 PM

I Am A Salesman

I am proud to be a salesman because more than any other man, I and millions of others like me, built a better world.

The man who builds a better mousetrap - or a better anything - would starve to death if he waited for people to beat a pathway to his door. Regardless of how good, or how needed, the product or service might be, it has to be sold.

“Eli Whitney was laughed at when he showed his cotton gin. Edison had to install his electric light free of charge in an office building before anyone would even look at it. The first sewing machine was smashed to pieces by a Boston mob. , People scoffed at the idea of railroads. They thought that even travelling thirty miles an hour would stop the circulation of the blood! McCormick strived for fourteen years to get people to use his reaper. Westinghouse was considered a fool for stating that he could stop a train with wind. Morse had to plead before ten Congresses before they would even look at his telegraph.

The public didn’t go around demanding these things; they had to be sold!

They needed thousands of salesmen, trailblazers, pioneers, people who could persuade with the same effectiveness as the inventor could invent. Salesmen took these inventions, sold the public on what these products could do, taught customers how to use them, and then taught businessmen how to make a profit from them.”

As a salesman I’ve done more to the world what it is today than any other person you know. I was just as vital in your great-great grandfather’s day as I am in yours, and I’ll be just as vital in your great-great-grandson’s day. I have educated more people; created more jobs; taken more drudgery from the labourer’s work; given more profits to businessmen; and have given more people a fuller and richer life than anyone in history.

I’ve dragged prices down, pushed quality up, and made it possible for you to enjoy the comforts and luxuries of cars, radios, electric refrigerators, televisions, and double glazed homes and buildings. I've healed the sick, given security to the aged, and put thousands of young men and women through college. I’ve made it possible for inventors to invent, for factories to hum, and for ships to sail the seven seas.

How much money you find in your pay envelope next week, and whether in the future you will enjoy the luxuries of pre-fabricated homes, stratospheric flying airplanes, and a new world of jet propulsion and atomic power, depends on me. The loaf of bread that you bought today was on a baker’s shelf because I made sure that a farmer’s wheat got to a mill, that the mill made the wheat into flour, and that the flour was delivered to your baker.

Without me the wheels of industry would come to a grinding halt.

And with that, jobs, marriages, politics, and freedom of thought would be a thing of the past. I AM A SALESMAN and I’m both proud and grateful that as such I serve my family, my fellow man, and my country.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

tahoe58 · #2 11-09-2007, 04:43 PM

cool story...I remember we always used to say....wow that guy could sell a refridgerator to an Eskimo! thanks for sharing that!

iblazethatkush · #3 11-09-2007, 04:51 PM

Hey I'm a salesman! You want some weed? I got it for sale.

dankie · #4 11-09-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ViRedd

I Am A Salesman

I am proud to be a salesman because more than any other man, I and millions of others like me, built a better world.

The man who builds a better mousetrap - or a better anything - would starve to death if he waited for people to beat a pathway to his door. Regardless of how good, or how needed, the product or service might be, it has to be sold.

“Eli Whitney was laughed at when he showed his cotton gin. Edison had to install his electric light free of charge in an office building before anyone would even look at it. The first sewing machine was smashed to pieces by a Boston mob. , People scoffed at the idea of railroads. They thought that even travelling thirty miles an hour would stop the circulation of the blood! McCormick strived for fourteen years to get people to use his reaper. Westinghouse was considered a fool for stating that he could stop a train with wind. Morse had to plead before ten Congresses before they would even look at his telegraph.

The public didn’t go around demanding these things; they had to be sold!

They needed thousands of salesmen, trailblazers, pioneers, people who could persuade with the same effectiveness as the inventor could invent. Salesmen took these inventions, sold the public on what these products could do, taught customers how to use them, and then taught businessmen how to make a profit from them.”

As a salesman I’ve done more to the world what it is today than any other person you know. I was just as vital in your great-great grandfather’s day as I am in yours, and I’ll be just as vital in your great-great-grandson’s day. I have educated more people; created more jobs; taken more drudgery from the labourer’s work; given more profits to businessmen; and have given more people a fuller and richer life than anyone in history.

I’ve dragged prices down, pushed quality up, and made it possible for you to enjoy the comforts and luxuries of cars, radios, electric refrigerators, televisions, and double glazed homes and buildings. I've healed the sick, given security to the aged, and put thousands of young men and women through college. I’ve made it possible for inventors to invent, for factories to hum, and for ships to sail the seven seas.

How much money you find in your pay envelope next week, and whether in the future you will enjoy the luxuries of pre-fabricated homes, stratospheric flying airplanes, and a new world of jet propulsion and atomic power, depends on me. The loaf of bread that you bought today was on a baker’s shelf because I made sure that a farmer’s wheat got to a mill, that the mill made the wheat into flour, and that the flour was delivered to your baker.

Without me the wheels of industry would come to a grinding halt.

And with that, jobs, marriages, politics, and freedom of thought would be a thing of the past. I AM A SALESMAN and I’m both proud and grateful that as such I serve my family, my fellow man, and my country.

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Thank you VI! Never has such a hated profession been so eloquently put into simple words. I will be printing this and handing it off to my sales team!

tahoe58 · #5 11-09-2007, 04:58 PM

hey Dankie...thats a very cool idea....give them something to help with perspective - good plan.

dankie · #6 11-09-2007, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by tahoe58

hey Dankie...thats a very cool idea....give them something to help with perspective - good plan.

It is hard being a salesperson. Most salespeople partied while the people they sell to went to school.

Our friends customers and family, all think we could have had better lives if we had applied ourselves.

I hope if anything it gives them some much deserved pride!

tahoe58 · #7 11-09-2007, 05:12 PM

the only things that are important are (1) find your passion (whatever that is and for everyone, it is different) and (2) always do your best. I think you were saying that in some way - apply yourself. thats really all it is. if you/anyone can master that....happiness is inherently achieved - that does not mean there are not bumps and deviations in the course - but with a passion and doing it well - a sense of accomplishment becomes the norm. My grandfather taught me that one...a long time ago.....its taken me a while to apply it....but I might actually be getting there...finally.

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Originally Posted by dankie

It is hard being a salesperson. Most salespeople partied while the people they sell to went to school.

Our friends customers and family, all think we could have had better lives if we had applied ourselves.

I hope if anything it gives them some much deserved pride!

medicineman · #8 11-09-2007, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by tahoe58

the only things that are important are (1) find your passion (whatever that is and for everyone, it is different) and (2) always do your best. I think you were saying that in some way - apply yourself. thats really all it is. if you/anyone can master that....happiness is inherently achieved - that does not mean there are not bumps and deviations in the course - but with a passion and doing it well - a sense of accomplishment becomes the norm. My grandfather taught me that one...a long time ago.....its taken me a while to apply it....but I might actually be getting there...finally.

Salesmen are the motor that drives capitalism, the most evil concept on the planet. Bring back the barter system, where a fair trade is worked out. We don't need no stinkin salesmen selling their wares. If you want to buy something ask someone that has that item if they would sell or trade it to you. Insurance salesmen are the absolute worst, next are real estate salesmen, then used car salesmen. you see them hanging out on the lot like vultures waiting to pounce. They contribute not to production, just take a cut of the product to suit their greedy ways.~LOL JMO. As for the insurance business as a whole, it is a criminal enterprise. Why do you think that governator of NY is getting illegals drivers liscences? So they can buy car insurance you silly wabbit. I wonder how much the insurance lobby has promised him. As for real estate salesmen, well that is pretty evident with all the people now losing their homes, it was a scam that finally melted down and the salesmen will make out on both ends, absolute scumbags.

Wavels · #9 11-09-2007, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by medicineman

capitalism, the most evil concept on the planet..

the very fact that you believe this nonsense speaks for itself....this is what animates your puerile posts...haha hardy haha...yea, Marx performed wonders with his miraculous system of faith in the workers....hardy haha

dankie · #10 11-09-2007, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by medicineman

Salesmen are the motor that drives capitalism, the most evil concept on the planet. Bring back the barter system, where a fair trade is worked out. We don't need no stinkin salesmen selling their wares. If you want to buy something ask someone that has that item if they would sell or trade it to you. Insurance salesmen are the absolute worst, next are real estate salesmen, then used car salesmen. you see them hanging out on the lot like vultures waiting to pounce. They contribute not to production, just take a cut of the product to suit their greedy ways.~LOL JMO. As for the insurance business as a whole, it is a criminal enterprise. Why do you think that governator of NY is getting illegals drivers liscences? So they can buy car insurance you silly wabbit. I wonder how much the insurance lobby has promised him. As for real estate salesmen, well that is pretty evident with all the people now losing their homes, it was a scam that finally melted down and the salesmen will make out on both ends, absolute scumbags.