And when I say that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. And old Dave, he’d go up to his room, you understand, put on his green velvet slippers, I’ll never forget, and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without ever leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And he was eighty-four years old, and he’d drummed merchandise in thirty-one states. And I was almost decided to go, when I met a salesman in the Parker House. I thought I’d go out with my older brother and try to locate him, and maybe settle in the North with the old man. We’ve got quite a little streak of self-reliance in our family. Oh, yeah, my father lived many years in Alaska.
See, there were three gold strikes in one month in Alaska, and I felt like going out. Because in those days I had a yearning to go to Alaska.
And there was a question in my mind as to whether selling had a future for me. When I was a boy, eighteen, nineteen, I was already on the road. Business is definitely business, but just listen for a minute.
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