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“But any salesman knows you can’t get pedantic with the client. The old saying ‘The customer is always right’, harks back to this common knowledge. If you’re the kind of person who has to correct someone every time they make a factual mistake, you might just want to stop for a moment and compare the average take-home pay of a teacher and that of a halfway competent salesman. Truth be told, you can make a hell of a lot more money by being wrong at the right time that by being right at the wrong time.”

He goes on to point out that “most American kids know this instinctively,” which is why they don’t know things like the capital of Peru, which they can look up, after all; a real American can get by on a smile and a shoeshine. 

October 28, 2011, 11:00am   Comments