“Always Be Closing.” That motto is gospel to salespeople. It comes from Glengarry Glen Ross, a 1992 movie starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, and Kevin Spacey. The movie is about a suburban office of hapless salesmen hawking shady real-estate investments. To keep their jobs, “Always Be Closing” is the mindset they must adopt with clients, a pitiless approach to an unfair world made up of winners and everyone else. In the office sweepstakes, “first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado,” Baldwin, a boss in from downtown, tells the staff. “Second prize, a set of steak knives. Third prize is
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