Glengarry Glen Ross

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS by David Mamet SCENE ONE A booth at a Chinese restaurant, Williamson and Levene are seated at the booth. LEVENE John...John...John.Okay.John. John.Look: (pause) The Glengarry Highland's leads, you're sending Roma out.Fine. He's a good man.We know what he is.He's fine.All I'm saying, you look at the board, he's throwing...wait, wait, wait, he's throwing them away, he's throwing the leads away.All that I'm saying, that you're wasting leads. I don't want to tell you your job. All that I'm saying, things get set, I know they do, you get a certain mindset... A guy gets a reputation.We know how this...all I'm saying, put a closer on the job. There's more than one man for the... Put a...wait a second, put a proven man out...and you watch, now wait a second--and you watch your dollar volumes...You start closing them for fifty 'stead of twenty- five...you put a closer on the... WILLIAMSON Shelly, you blew the last... LEVENE No.John.No.Let's wait, let's back up here, I did...will you please?Wait a second.Please.I didn't "blow" them.No.I didn't "blow" them.No.One kicked out, one I closed... WILLIAMSON ...you didn't close... LEVENE ...I, if you'd listen to me. Please.I closed the cocksucker. His ex, John, his ex, I didn't know he was married...he, the judge invalidated the... 2. WILLIAMSON Shelly... LEVENE ...and what is that, John?What? Bad luck.That's all it is.I pray in your life you will never find it runs in streaks.That's what it does, that's all it's doing.