always be closing Concepts

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

by Ron Chernow · 1 Jan 1990 · 1,335pp · 336,772 words

cynicism, a belief that Morgan partners drove a hard bargain and needlessly offended people with their arrogance. Relations between the Morgans and the British would always be close but seldom harmonious, a fraternal tension lurking beneath protestations of mutual devotion. WHERE other partners at 23 Wall Street harbored some secret envy or suspicion

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

by David K. Shipler · 12 Nov 2008 · 407pp · 136,138 words

desperate pleading for survival. “So, God,” she concluded that first evening, “please bless Tom, Zach, Matt, Katie & myself—long life, Love, Happiness, laughter, and to always be close to each other and thank you for Today. Amen. Kara.” Her delights were simple. It was “a wonderful day” when “Tom Bill & virginia went and

Fed Up!: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader

by Colin Lancaster · 3 May 2021 · 245pp · 75,397 words

this. “Just think how well they did on that during the run-up to the GFC. It was as if Greenspan himself was giving the ‘Always Be Closing’ speech in the movie Glengarry Glen Ross.” He stands up and mimics the famous scene in the movie. He knows the speech by memory. Chairman

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the offices of the New York Fed … Please remember that the “Coffee’s for closers only …” A-B-C. A-always, B-be, C-closing. Always be closing. Always be closing … You got the prospects comin’ in. You think they came in to get out of the rain? Guy doesn’t walk on the lot unless

Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story

by Greg Smith · 21 Oct 2012 · 304pp · 99,836 words

he was very fond of catchy abbreviations: a favorite of his was one he’d borrowed from David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross—ABC, or “Always Be Closing.” (I don’t think he quite realized that Mamet’s play was a dark satire of unethical business practices.) He also relished GTB, or “Get

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

by Patricia Lockwood · 1 May 2017 · 296pp · 97,735 words

flashed on images of a surprised grandpa nearly being carried away by an artificial wave. It was the sort of place where a ride was always being closed down because someone had sustained a grievous injury on a flume. But no one can ever close down Nature, no matter how many patrons it

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe · 12 Apr 2021 · 712pp · 212,334 words

those who showed signs of dependence and withdrawal were merely suffering from “pseudo-addiction.” In Tennessee, the company trained its sales representatives to “ABC,” or “Always Be Closing,” citing a line delivered by Alec Baldwin in the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, which is about salesmen using deceptive tactics to con unsuspecting buyers

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into investing in worthless real estate. In their notebooks, the new reps dutifully wrote down, Always…Be…Closing. The Sacklers did not appear to be chastened by having to pay a $600 million fine. Instead, the family and their adjutants continued to abide

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.” Declaration of Sean Thatcher, State of Montana v. Purdue Pharma LP et al., Case No. ADV-2017-949, Montana First Judicial Court, Feb. 16, 2018. “Always Be Closing”: Notes from Purdue sales representatives’ training notebooks, dating from 2009 and 2012, reproduced in Tennessee Complaint. “key messages that work”: Pamela Taylor, email, May 16

When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

by Irvin D. Yalom · 21 Mar 2011 · 444pp · 128,592 words

hears of any tender feelings I have for Nietzsche.” “Paul reads your letters?” “Yes, why not? Our friendship has grown deeper. I suspect I will always be close to him. We have no secrets from one another: we even read one another’s diaries. Paul has been entreating me to break off with

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig · 1 Jan 1974

, tallied them on the blackboard and averaged the rankings for an overall class opinion. Then he would reveal his own rankings, and this would almost always be close to, if not identical with the class average. Where there were differences it was usually because two papers were close in quality. At first the

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez · 27 Jun 2016 · 559pp · 155,372 words

day. In a panic, I realized I hadn’t brought my AdGrok laptop to lunch, and was therefore not ready for an impromptu demo. FAIL! Always be closing, motherfucker. But we had an out. MRM, ever the inventive engineer who knew how to extract value six different ways from the same piece of

The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise

by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher · 1 Dec 2009

deal of information about the requests. State costs money, processing power, availability, and scalability. Although there are many cases where state is valuable, it should always be closely evaluated for return on investment. State often implies the need for additional systems and sometimes synchronous calls that would not exist in a stateless system