On Thursday, Arun Jaitley said in the Rajya Sabha that FDI in retail would turn India into "a nation of sales boys and sales girls".
Frankly, we don't know why Mr Jaitley's so worried. After all, being a salesperson doesn't mean that you're doomed to carry on being one for life. Here are some celebrities who made it big despite their beginnings as salespeople...
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Arshad Warsi sold makeup on local buses in Mumbai before working in a photolab and eventually opening a dance school
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Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra sold vacuum cleaners for Eureka Forbes in Delhi
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Johnny Depp was a telephone salesman for pens
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Before he was making a million women weak in the knees every time he spoke even a word, George Clooney sold shoes
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Before he started making Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Colonel Sanders was an insurance salesman
