A jobless man applied for the position of office boy at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him, then a test: clean the floor.
“You are engaged” he said, give me your e-mail address, and I’ll send you the application to fill, as well as when you will start.
The man replied “I don’t have a computer, neither an email”
I’m sorry, said the HR manager, if you don’t have an email that means you do not exist. And who doesn’t exist, cannot have the job.
The man left with no hope at all.
He didn’t know what to do, with only 10$ in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10 Kg tomato crate. He sold these tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours. He succeeded to double his capital.
He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with 60$. The man realized that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly later, he bought a cart, then a truck. Then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.
5 years later, the man was one of the biggest food retailers in the US.
He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and chooses a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email.
The man replied: ‘I don’t have an email address.’
The broker replied curiously, you don’t have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?
The man thought for a while, and replied: ‘an office boy at Microsoft!’
The moral of this story: 1- Internet is not the solution to life;
2- If you don’t have internet, and work hard, you can be a millionaire.
3- If you received this message by email, you are closer to be an office boy, rather than a millionaire.
Have a great day.
P.S.: Do not reply on this email, I am going to sell Tomatoes.
Little old lady went into the Bank of Canada one day carrying a bag of money. She insisted that she must speak with the president of the bank to open a savings account because she has a lot of money to deposit!”
After much hemming and hawing, the bank staff finally ushered her into the president’s office (the customer is always right!)
The bank president then asked her how much she would like to deposit She replied, “$250,000!” and dumped the cash out of her bag onto his desk. The president was of course curious as to how she came by all this cash, so he asked her, “Ma’am, I’m surprised you’re carrying so much cash around “Where did you get this money?”
The old lady replied, “I make bets.”
The president then asked, “Bets? What kind of bets?” The old woman said, “Well, for example, I’ll bet you $25,000 that your balls are square.”
“Ha ha ha!” laughed the president, “That’s a stupid bet, you can never win that kind of bet!”
The old lady challenged, “So, would you like to take my bet?” “Sure,” said the president, I’ll bet $25,000 that my balls are not square!”
The little old lady then said, “Okay, but since there is a lot of money involved, may I bring my lawyer with me tomorrow at 10:00 AM as a witness?”
“Sure!” replied the confident president.
That night, the president got very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of a mirror checking his balls, turning from side to side, again and again He thoroughly checked them out until he was sure there was absolutely no way his balls were square and that he would win the bet.
The next morning, at precisely 10:00 am, the little old lady appeared with her lawyer at the president’s office. She introduced the lawyer to the president and repeated the bet: “$25,000 says the president’s balls are square!”
The president agreed with the bet again and the old lady asked him to drop his pants so they could all see. The president did. The little old lady peered closely at his balls and then asked if she could feel them.
“Well, Okay,” said the president, “$25,000 is a lot of money, so I guess you should be absolutely sure.”
Just then, he noticed that the lawyer was quietly banging his head against the wall.
The President asked the old lady, “What the hell’s the matter with your lawyer?”
She replied, “Nothing, except I bet him $100,000 that at 10:00 AM today, I’d have The Bank of Canada’s president’s balls in my hand.”
A beggar was sitting at the train station with a bowl full of pencils A young executive passed by and dropped a dollar in the bowl.
He then boarded the train. Before the doors closed, something came to his mind and he went back to the beggar, grabbed a bunch of pencils, and said, “They are priced right. After all you are a business person and so am I,” and he left.
Six months later, the executive attended a party. The beggar was also there in a suit and tie.
The beggar recognized the executive, went up to him and said,”You probably don’t recognize me but I remember you.”
He then narrated the incident that happened six months before. The executive said, “Now that you have reminded me, I do recall that you were begging.”
“What are you doing here in your suit and tie?”
The beggar replied, “You probably don’t know what you did for me that day. You were the first person in my life who gave me back my dignity. You grabbed the bunch of pencils and said ‘They are priced right. After all, you are a business person and so am I.’
After you left, I thought to myself, what am I doing here? Why am I begging?
I decided to do something constructive with my life. I packed my bag, started working and here I am.
I just want to thank you for giving me back my dignity.
“That incident changed my life.”
This is the magic of self-esteem in beggar’s life went up and so did his performance.