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If you become a yacht salesman, are you expected to sell one on the first day? Are you a failure because someone else sold a hundred hot dogs?

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I wouldn't be a failure, but I certainly wouldn't be claiming (as the original submission title did, now thankfully fixed by the mods) that I was a better yacht salesman than you if I had never even sold a yacht.

I always thought that one of the hardest thing to sell must be fighter airplanes. A (normal) country only buys new ones maybe once every 25-30 years. It is a long selling process!

You do not yet understand the role of bribery and corruption in the sale of fighter planes.

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