I think that the best test of friendship is when you get a job in sales, and you work on commission, that your friends and family DON’T avoid you. My brother Ed just got a job in insurance sales, and he has asked all of his friends and all of his family to let him practice his sales pitch on them and consider his product, and I swear you would think that he had stood up in a crowded theater and yelled “Fire!”

I went ahead and took a look at his product and I think it is a good one. In fact, I bought it. It’s a real shame that he had to learn the hard way exactly who his support network is and is not.