Steve Jobs a Used Car Salesman
"In our country sales has a bad name. Maybe it is because people have been burned by car salesman so bad that this attitude persists"- an observation
Is it so bad to be a car salesman? No it is up to the salesman to make it a priority to sell ethically and not to take advantage of their customers but to build a relationship.
With that in mind, why did I title this post by combining Steve Jobs and Used Car Saleman? Well, most of us would not have considered Steve Jobs a salesman BUT he was. He was an acceptional salesman. He sold products to people that they didn't even know they needed.
One interesting fact that many people overlook is that he was not a technical genius. He was a great visionary that knew when something was great or not. The technical visuionary for Apple was Steve Wozniak. Who more than anything wanted to stay at HP as an engineer.
So Steve Jobs had to sell his on starting the company. If he had not he might have ended up in car sales... probably not
The point is that we are always selling. There is nothing wrong with selling your ideas and products. Steve Jobs sold Steve Wozniak in order to form Apple.
Today's question is:
"Are you comfortable selling to others or do you see it as dirty?"
"In our country sales has a bad name. Maybe it is because people have been burned by car salesman so bad that this attitude persists"- an observation
Is it so bad to be a car salesman? No it is up to the salesman to make it a priority to sell ethically and not to take advantage of their customers but to build a relationship.
With that in mind, why did I title this post by combining Steve Jobs and Used Car Saleman? Well, most of us would not have considered Steve Jobs a salesman BUT he was. He was an acceptional salesman. He sold products to people that they didn't even know they needed.
One interesting fact that many people overlook is that he was not a technical genius. He was a great visionary that knew when something was great or not. The technical visuionary for Apple was Steve Wozniak. Who more than anything wanted to stay at HP as an engineer.
So Steve Jobs had to sell his on starting the company. If he had not he might have ended up in car sales... probably not
The point is that we are always selling. There is nothing wrong with selling your ideas and products. Steve Jobs sold Steve Wozniak in order to form Apple.
Today's question is:
"Are you comfortable selling to others or do you see it as dirty?"
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