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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
telling him. So I skipped the explanations and the preliminaries and asked him, "How
much commission will you get on that five hundred dollar order?"
He promptly shook his head and said, "I can't do it! Sorry!"
"How much do you get?" I persisted.
"A third. But I can't do it!" he said.
"A third of five hundred dollars is one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.
I'll give you two hundred dollars cash if you give me back that signed contract" And to
prove it I took the money out of my pocket.
"I told you I couldn't do it," he said.
"Do all your customers make the same offer to you?" I asked.
"No," he answered.
"Then why were you so sure that I was going to make it?"
"It is what your type of sport would do. You are a first-class loser and that makes you a
first-class business man. I am much obliged to you, but I can't do it."
"Now tell me why you do not wish to make more than your commission?"
"It isn't that, exactly," he said. "I am not working just for the commission."
"What are you working for then?"
"For the commission and the record," he answered.
"What record?"
"Mine."
"What are you driving at?"
"Do you work for money alone?" he asked me.
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