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How You Made Money

  • 14-09-2010 9:31pm
    #1
    coldfire1x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭


    A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money.

    The old guy fingered his worsted wool vest and said, "Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel.

    "I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents.

    "The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5:00 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37."

    "And that's how you built an empire?" the boy asked.

    "Heavens, no!" the man replied. "Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."

    A disappointed salesman of Coca Cola returns from his Middle East assignment.
    A friend asked, "Why weren't you successful with the Arabs?"
    The salesman explained, "When I got posted in the Middle East, I was very confident that I will makes a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn't know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters...

    First poster, a man crawling through the hot desert sand...
    Totally exhausted and panting.

    Second poster, the man is drinking our Cola and

    Third, our man is now totally refreshed.

    Then these posters were pasted all over the place"
    "That should have worked," said the friend.
    The salesman replied, "Well, not only did I not speak Arabic,
    I also didn't realise that Arabs Read from Right to Left..."

    When a guy’s printer type began to grow faint, he called a local repair shop where a friendly man informed him that the printer probably needed only to be cleaned. Because the store charged $50 for such cleanings, he told him he might be better off reading the printer’s manual and trying the job himself.

    Pleasantly surprised by his candour, he asked, "Does your boss know that you discourage business?"

    "Actually, it is my boss’s idea," the employee replied sheepishly.

    "We usually make more money on repairs if we let people try to fix things themselves first."


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