A short spoken opinion arguing that the film The Wolf of Wall Street positively influenced younger people to consider sales as an attractive career, while cautioning that the movie's depiction of unethical behaviors (e.g., drug use, manipulation) is not representative of honest selling. The speaker emphasizes ethical selling—selling for customers, not to them.
What do you think of the movie the Wolf of Wall Street? I think for the younger generation, I think it's brilliant because it caused them to like want to look at sales as like a career where they can do exceptionally well financially, but they have to do it the right way because if they do it like, hey, you know, I need to wear these three piece suits and like snort cocaine. That's not what real selling is. Obviously that's unethical, number one. Number two, you're always going to get busted. But I think it helped the younger generation view sales as like, hey, Sal, sales could be fun. Sales is not something you do to people where you're manipulating them for you to make money. You've got to start having the mindset that sales is something you do for you're not doing it to them. Selling is something you're doing for them.
