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 I Am a Salesperson

  I am proud to be a salesperson because, more than anybody else, I (and millions of others   
 like me) built America.  The person who builds a better mousetrap – or a better anything –   
 would starve to death if they waited for people to beat a pathway to their 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 traveling thirty miles an hour
    would stop the circulation of blood!  
  • 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 salespeople, 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
 business people how to make a profit from them.  As a salesperson I have done more to
 make America what is today than any other person you know.  
  • I was just as vital in your Great-grandfather’s day as I am in yours, and I’ll be just as vital in
    your Great-grandson’s day.  
  • I have educated more people, created more jobs, taken more drudgery from laborer’s work,
    given more profits to business people, and have given more people a richer life than anyone
    in history.  
  • I have dragged prices down, pushed quality up, and made it possible for you to enjoy the
    comforts and luxuries of automobiles, radios, electronic refrigerators, televisions, and air-
    conditioned homes and buildings.  
  • I’ve healed the sick, given security to the aged, and put thousands of young people through
    college.  
  • I have 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 luxury of prefabricated 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 the
    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 SALESPERSON and I am both proud and grateful that as such I serve my family,
 my fellow person, and my country.
                                                                                                ~AUTHOR UNKNOWN
San Diego County, CA

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