Jim returned to Canada a conquering hero. The Iran trip augured a different realm of financial success for the company. There were many desert countries in need of staunch portable storage. But for Jim it went beyond money. He reveled in the hushed silence when he walked into the weekly sales meeting packed with a hundred reps. All the men knew Jim had traveled to Iran cold and came back with a $50 million order. Every one of them was thinking, How does he pull it off? What is his magic? Jim couldn’t restrain himself and was grinning ear to ear. The truth was that he could sell more in a year than the rest of them combined. He was that good. A week after Jim’s return, he happened to be visiting in the accounting office and overheard one of the girls muttering about Marvin, who had come and gone minutes earlier. Marvin had written a check to Cash for five thousand dollars. As Jim flipped back through the pages of the large checkbook he discovered that his partner had been writing sizable checks for nearly a year.
