We don't start people at the top, you understand? That would be too easy. We do it the American way. We give them an opportunity to work up from the bottom.

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americans employees opportunity

10 seconds sound clip from the The Sin of Harold Diddlebock movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:09:49 in the DVD version of the movie.

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- Now let me see, that was football, wasn't it? Or was it ice hockey? I go to everything.

- Football, of course.

- And I presume I promised you a job. I usually do when I get excited. But you shall have it.

- With me, a promise is a sacred pledge. My word is my bond. My handshake is like a certified check. My check is like a...

- He who loses honor loses everything.

- We don't start people at the top, you understand? That would be too easy. We do it the American way. We give them an opportunity to work up from the bottom.

- What satisfaction. What a feeling of accomplishment you'll have when you are able to look back from whatever rung of the ladder your go-gettiveness will have placed you on to say I, I did that.

- Fine. You know nothing about the advertising business at all, I presume. Good! Then you won't have anything to unlearn.

- You'll be able to start right in the basement and your rise will be all the more spectacular.

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