An Ode to Sales People

100 years later, this poem reflects the spirit of current-day selling... do you agree?

A framed copy of ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling hung on my wall next to my bed as a young girl.

It’s outwardly an ode to being a man, so I’m grateful that my father found it appropriate to place it in the room of his two daughters, rather than the rooms of his four sons.

These many years later, I’m surprised—and grateful—to realize how often Kipling’s lyrical …