“High pressure salesmen focus on the short term incentives to outweigh the long term cons”
Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker
“I don't mind technique… I can be shameless. I have a long career at this. But when everything is a short con, then there's never another short con. Because you need trust, and you've destroyed it.”
As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard <br class="br">2010s
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