How To Truly Impress a Client

How To Truly Impress a Client

I was in the airport VIP lounge en route to Seattle a couple of weeks
ago. While in there, I noticed Bill Gates sitting comfortably in the
corner, enjoying a drink.
 
I was meeting a very important client who
was also flying to Seattle, but she was running a little bit late.

Well, being a straightforward kind of guy, I approached the Microsoft
chairman, introduced myself, and said,
“Mr. Gates, I wonder if you would do me a favor.”

“Yes?”

“I'm sitting right over there,” pointing to my seat at the bar, and
I’m waiting on a very important client. Would you be so kind when she
arrives as to come walk by and just say, ‘Hi, Ray’?”

“Sure.”

I shook his hand and thanked him and went back to my seat. About ten
minutes later, my client showed up. We ordered a drink and started to
talk business.

A couple of minutes later, I felt a tap on my shoulder.
It was a smiling Bill Gates.

“Hi, Ray,” he said.

I replied, “F*ck off, Gates, 
Can't you see I'm in a meeting.”
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Definition of Chutzpah

Definition of Chutzpah  also hutz·pah (KHut'spe, hut'-spa)

 

Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; 

It's Yiddish and as Leo Rosten writes no other word and no other language can do it justice. 

This example is better than 1,000 words...      

THE ESSENCE OF CHUTZPAH... 

Chutzpah

A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each.     

Every day a nice young man would leave his office building at lunch time, and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel. 

And this went on for more than 3 years. 

The two of them never spoke. 

One day, as the young man passed the old lady’s stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel lady finally spoke to him. 

Without blinking an eye she said: "Hey, They are 35 cents now."