Word: salesman
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...anyone shoulders the "blame" for Goldman's golden performance, it is Blankfein. Self-deprecating and seemingly unassuming, the former gold salesman has been ruthlessly ambitious for his firm and its continued success. "He takes it very personally when people act against the firm or show disloyalty," says a former Goldman executive. (See the worst business deals...
...make the cut in Goldman's famously exhaustive recruitment process (or at the other two firms either). "It wasn't a nutty decision. I was a lawyer," he says. "I didn't have a finance background." Instead, in 1982 he landed a job as a gold salesman for J. Aron & Co., an obscure commodities firm that Goldman had purchased in November 1981 for about $100 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, when Blankfein told his then fiancée Laura - now his wife and the mother of their three children, one of whom is at Harvard - that he was leaving...
What are the goods of The Goods? -Getachew Balcha, Addis Ababa The goods can refer to what you bring to the table as a salesman - you know, "Do you have the goods?" My character is named Don (the Goods) Ready because he has what it takes to make the sale, to live the dream. He's actually very delusional, and it's fantastic to play characters like that...
...President also assured a concerned health-insurance salesman from Helena who wanted to know why Obama decided during the health-care debate to "vilify" insurance companies that he was not declaring war on the companies but wants to streamline the way medical bills are calculated and treatment prescribed...
...last stop is Best Buy. Gault shows a salesman a printout: a webcam listed at $135 in the store is going for $110 on the Internet. The salesman flatly refuses to match the lower price, citing store policy. Gault politely asks for a manager. As seasoned hagglers know, this person has the power to be your best friend...