Throughout the centuries, humanity has been blessed with Creators of Gifts in the fields of science, literature, philosophy, business, government, religion, and technology.
But if it had not been for another group of heroes and heroines, we would have been deprived of these treasures. I speak of the bearers of the gifts, the salespeople.
Socrates created a path of reason through the use of questions, but it remained for his student, Plato, to sell the citizens of Greece on the fact that this was a road that lead to truth.
Creators such as Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin envisioned a form of government that was based on the will of its citizens, but it was up to a salesman named Tom Paine to use his Common Sense to convince those very citizens that it was a dream worth fighting for.
The Scientifically creative people have brightened our roads with new inventions, but if it had not been for sales people, Edison's light bulb would have remained in his lab, Bell's telephone would have gathered dust on a shelf, and Ford's automobile would have never left the garage.
From her dark, silent world, Helen Keller served us a banquet of love, beauty, and wisdom. However it was Anne Sullivan who sold her the realization that her fingers could communicate those messages of hope and victory.
While England stood alone, suffered, fought, and persevered against the mightiest Army and Air Force ever assembled up to that time, she never even considered surrender because a salesman named Winston Churchill convinced the entire nation that the time of hunger, destruction, and death was its Finest Hour ... Continue
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