The keys to his success: "Be a good listener, spend a lot of time on the telephone and be able to handle rejection."

His problem is that he can hurl around thunderbolts, but he cannot handle rejection.

"Being in sales helps you handle rejection."

She also recalled his saying that he "couldn't handle rejection from women and he had been hurt all his life by them."

Jimmy storms off and gets high, but Karen convinces him to come back and show that he's got thick enough skin to handle rejection.

"If you can't handle rejection, it's not the job for you," he said.

I was getting pretty good at handling rejection, I'll tell you, though that's not the sort of thing you brag about to your grandkids.

Modern stalkers on film are almost always single and very lonely, and they just can't handle rejection.

He handled rejection in a way that 50's audiences expected only from women - he folded.

Ruby then cannot handle rejection and turns to alcohol for comfort and to "numb her feelings".