Joe Girard Lessons from the Best Salesman in the World
Salespeople are not born. They are I stuttered as a kid because of the things my dad would say to me. He took away my confidence and I stuttered until the age of 35. I went to see a psychologist. Now I m the type of person when something is wrong, I don t wait until it gets worse. I handle it yesterday. I stopped stuttering and I wanted to get into the sales 30 years ago, when I was growing up in Detroit, Michigan, I had a I don t know why he didn t like me. Used to beat me and hit me and tell me that I was no good and that I was a no good bum. And had I not had a beautiful mother at the time, who would sell me and tell me, Don t listen to him. Show him that you can be good. One day she took me to a window and she said, Joey, out there there s something for everybody. Go out and find it. And show him. That he s It s to prove to my father that he was wrong. To show him that I m gonna be
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