David Lukas
3 HN recommenders · recommended in 5 months, 2009–2012
7:23 · 4.6M views · Oct 26, 2006
The famous Alec Baldwin monologue from the film Glengarry Glen Ross, where his character Blake berates salesmen with the 'Always Be Closing' speech. It is a short, profane scene about sales pressure and motivation.
HN points to it as the one scene worth watching from the movie, a classic about sales and entrepreneurship.
6 comments from Hacker News
Sales. It is all about the numbers. Just watch this classic clip from Glengarry Glen Ross: this video Pure. Gold.
If you liked this movie, may I suggest the David Mamet movie that inspired it: Glengarry Glen Ross ( [LINK] ). Brilliant (but NSFW, language) "Always Be Closing" scene to give you a feel for it: this video
That's really the only part of the movie worth watching to be honest. Save yourself 90 minutes and just watch that scene: this video
It's a memorable line from a monologue delivered by the Alec Baldwin character in the movie 'Glengarry Glen Ross'. [scene] this video [transcript] [LINK] (Language is NSFW... unless of course your workplace is like the one in the movie.)
this video Always Be Closing "The hardest thing in life is sell" [LINK] * * * The biggest step in my opinion is the psychological one. After that, everything comes in much easier than before.