And be aggressive, learn how to push! Talk to ’em. But this putz is tellin me you know, uhh, 100 shares? Wrong answer! No! You have to be closing all the time. You don’t like the idea, don’t pick up a single share. Okay? To a question like what is the firm minimum, the answer is zero. It’s not like I asked him, what’s your 800 number, that’s fuckoff question. Towards the end I started askin him buying questions, like what’s the firm minimum? That’s a buying question, right there that guys gotta take me down. I got every fuckin rebuttal outta this guy, kept him on the phone for an hour and a half. I remember one time I had this guy call me up, wanted to pitch me, right? Wanted to sell me stock. So get on the phones, it’s time to get to work. None of this Debbie the Time Life operator bullshit. Okay? You’re not sendin’ out press packets anymore. When I was a junior broker I did it in 26 days. Seth’s the only one that’s opened the necessary forty accounts for his team leader. I’m gonna keep this short, okay? You passed your sevens over a month ago. The movie was just so-so, but the scene in which Ben Affleck’s character (Jim Young) explains things to a bunch of trainees in a small-time brokerage house is… chilling. A great “sales” scene from Boiler Room (2000), written and directed by Ben Younger and staring Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, Scott Caan, Vin Diesel and Nia Long.
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