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Being a salesman is the ultimate career. Especially when you get to deal with bosses like this one. (If you are in sales, or have ever been in sales, you will get this. If you’ve never been in sales, probably won’t get it…and consider yourself very lucky.)
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Putting aside its incredible product line and pipeline of more, its still attractive valuation relative to earnings, and its $100 per share of cash that may be used for a dividend soon, Apple's stock has gone parabolic. And, parabolic moves always end one way, back to the place where the parabolic move began. Now, AAPL can of course power higher to who knows where in this move but the largest market cap stock in the world has now entered a tenuous phase, strictly technically speaking. But I digress. German investor confidence, the ZEW, in the next 6 months rose back...
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September 1st, 2010 at 12:08 pm
I think the Sales Manager used just about every catch phrase I have heard in 20+ years of being a Sales Engineer. This is why I remain as SE instead of getting “promoted” to Sales!
September 1st, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Incredibly accurate! They ought to change the title to “So you want to be a salesperson?”
September 1st, 2010 at 3:20 pm
it’s, too, bad that this “If you’ve never been in sales, probably won’t get it”-segment exists..
just, on one facet, if more peep had some background in Sales, there would be fewer sh***y Products on the Market..
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September 1st, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Thanks BR…been in the chair but never had the temerity to retort like this guy. All I can say is there are millions of sales people that will get a laugh out of this.