But after several days of door to door selling, Benny the salesman, began to fell uncomfortable wearing the beard, in this hot and dusty land. He wanted to shave it off, but his local inside sales representative was shocked and said, "Do you not remember the ancient legend, Sire? The man who removes his beard is cursed and made into a piece of earthenware."
Benny, the salesman, had heard this legend, but being a modern man, he scoffed at the tale.
Being headstrong, he went ahead and cut and scraped away his once magnificent beard. As the final whisker was cut off, a huge dust storm came up. It lasted only a few seconds, and when it cleared, there was a man-sized clay vessel where only moments before had stood the salesman.
The local inside sales representative then knew the legend must be true. His conclusion?
"A Benny shaved is a Benny urned."
Moral of the story. True sales professionals know that in order to be successful at sales, sometimes you need to be a little nomadic. Traveling from town to town, city to city, hotel room to hotel room, can get to be a little tiresome at times. As an outlet, some road warriors abuse the corporate expense account, from time to time, in order to compensate themselves for the inconvenience of being away from home. Don't fall into the corporate expense account spend trap. Be frugal instead. Don't waste funds just because they aren't your own. Or someday, a corporate accounting dust storm will suddenly come up and shave you off their books as an expense line item, permanently. And your career? Well, it would be urned as well.
"I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone." - Diane von Furstenberg
