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...When Joe Girard goes to a football or baseball game, he doesn’t just go to support his team...
...Girard, billed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “World’s Greatest Salesman,” spoke at HBS yesterday on how to achieve success in business...
...You’re constantly selling yourself,” Girard instructed the attendees, some of whom had to find seating in the aisles of the packed auditorium...
...Girard achieved fame selling vehicles at a record pace: 13,001 cars and trucks in his 15 years as a salesman before retiring at the age of 49. His stratospheric sales figures attracted the attention of the Guinness Book of World Records, which had Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu—then called Deloitte and Touche—audit his records to verify their legitimacy before including him in the book...
...proud of one thing,” Girard told the audience, while holding up a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records. “I got in this book, and I didn’t have to eat 10,000 bananas to get in this thing...