I have found that every now and then a customer or potential customer needs to be fired too. And, nothing motivates employees like letting one go. You had the perfect answer for that "potential" customer.

 

Hey - KNOCK IT OFF! I had a 1987 Buick Regal, and it was a great car. Awesome. Seriously, it was a Grand National.

OK, it couldn't stop, and didn't turn so well, and assembled poorly out of cheap components, but it was the eighties and everything was crap back then. But it went real fast in a straight line, briefly.

 

A smart philosopher once said: "Haters gon Hate"

 

Then again, it probably wasn't 2014 when you had that Buick regal

I used that example because I spent a lot of time back then fixing my mothers '87 regal so it has a special dark place in my heart. What a POS it was from day it was purchased new..

 

It's interesting that the custom tailored suits and shirts that I wear and the Hermes ties are beneficial to my success in sales, whereas my sportscar would be considered a liability.The clothes are expensive luxury items also, in my mind.

The only point of wearing these kinds of clothes, other than looking good, is to project competence, authority and success.

There is no question that being conservatively well dressed is hugely important, at least in financial sales.

Perhaps the issue with the porsche is that it is inherently not a conservative car.

I work in manhattan so no one sees my car, fortunately. But, if they did, I would be far more comfortable being seen in my 550i, rather than my 911, despite the fact that my clients are likely to be driven to my office in a chauffeured maybach.