OT: The Tomato Company
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kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes
an aptitude test.
The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum
wage of $5.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can
get you into the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the
forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first
day."
Taken aback, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer
nor an e-mail address.
To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a company like
ours you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can
hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day."
Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his
wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb.
crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy
corner and displays the tomatoes.
In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit.
Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with
almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries
for his family.
During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day.
By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into
the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.
Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes
of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy
a broken-down pickup truck.
At the end of a year he owns three old trucks.
His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the
tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is
taking night courses at the community college so she can keep books for
him.
By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and
employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He
continues to work hard.
Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice
trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms
that the boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of
homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the
business grossed over one million dollars.
Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance.
Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit
his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail.
When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer
and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, you
don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would
be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"
"Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be
sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour."
Which brings us to the moral of the story:
Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being a
janitor than a millionaire.
Don S
three corners of the intersection, would any of them have been able to
even make a good living. That is what free enterprise is about, you
have to be there with a good plan and be ahead of the curve. It is not
just a fanciful idea that makes one successful. But still a good story.
qwest602000
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nice story
Trailer Trash
What if three other people decided to do the same thing on the other
three corners of the intersection, would any of them have been able to
even make a good living. That is what free enterprise is about, you have
to be there with a good plan and be ahead of the curve. It is not just a
fanciful idea that makes one successful. But still a good story.
The "Stock Market" is always an: 'What If?'
I've been in here since the days of "Stockbuster."
A guy whose every pick went south, kind of an old joke in here back in
the good old days of:
millstox, blash, J.Perry, piddy, 704set, PeterL and Dr. Tormento. etc.
The moral of the story is: You missed it!
Work hard and make money the old fashion way, by *earning* it first.
Everyone thinks they have a system, and the ones' still left in MIS have
seen literally thousands of *would be* millionaires come and go.
Ask these people (I've listed above) who and what they've seen and
done(if they'll cooperate).
Atleast, read their sage advice; seek them out and ask *intelligent*
questions, about buying and holding stocks, before wanting to day-trade;
and quickly turn to using options (puts, calls and straddles) etc.
Don S
> nos...@verizon.net "Don S" <
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> What if three other people decided to do the same thing on the other
> three corners of the intersection, would any of them have been able to
> even make a good living. That is what free enterprise is about, you have
> to be there with a good plan and be ahead of the curve. It is not just a
> fanciful idea that makes one successful. But still a good story.
>
>
>
> The "Stock Market" is always an: 'What If?'
>
> I've been in here since the days of "Stockbuster."
>
> A guy whose every pick went south, kind of an old joke in here back in
> the good old days of:
> millstox, blash, J.Perry, piddy, 704set, PeterL and Dr. Tormento. etc.
>
> The moral of the story is: You missed it!
>
> Work hard and make money the old fashion way, by *earning* it first.
>
> Everyone thinks they have a system, and the ones' still left in MIS have
> seen literally thousands of *would be* millionaires come and go.
market, and would like to do better. I don't believe in fairy
godmothers or systems.
>
> Ask these people (I've listed above) who and what they've seen and
> done(if they'll cooperate).
>
> Atleast, read their sage advice; seek them out and ask *intelligent*
> questions, about buying and holding stocks, before wanting to day-trade;
> and quickly turn to using options (puts, calls and straddles) etc.
calls.
>
com...@webtv.net
the man arrested for selling without a license. and the health dept
would have fined him for sanitary violations. the IRS would have dmaded
his tax ID number and a gang of illegal aliens would stab and kill him
for his money. then the illegals wold throw the tomatoes at the police
hen they came to haul away the mans body.
A Liberal is "just a Communist in a Free Country" !
Trailer Trash
I have more than doubled my moneys in the years I have been playing the
market, and would like to do better. I don't believe in fairy godmothers
or systems.
I'm very happy that you've doubled your monies, I stand corrected; You
got it and Comics is well, Comics!