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Le'me tell ya a true story ...
Back in the 50s & 60s, I,too, was an entrepreneurial fence hopper ... the grass was always greener on the other side of the fence. I started a multitude of businesses; some profitable, some not. I was always into (or going into) something more profitable.
In the late 60s, I owned & operated a rather successful Women's Wig Shop ... it was making a nice profit - but - as always, I kept going into other businesses on the side; using the profits from the Wig Shop. One day, telling my wife (DeLores) about my plans for a new venture, she said, "We're making some good money in the wig business, why don't we just do that for a while and forget those other plans." That stabbed me in my male ego ... it intimated that my ventures were less than viable and I was using up valuable resources which could have gone to home & hearth. So ... in retaliation ... I said, "Okay. If that's the way you feel about it, I will do NOTHING but the wig business. Then, when we fail, it will all be your fault." True to my word, I put 3"x5" cards with the words "Think Wigs!" on the walls in my office, around my desk, in the toilet, my car ... everywhere. And, I did NOTHING but work the wig business. Just 2 years later, I was the largest wig dealer in the southeast ... with a string of retail shops; and a wholesale warehouse selling to other wig shops & beauty salons. It was all my wife's fault ... she made me become a millionaire. Jim FREE! FREE! FREE! |
Re: Le'me tell ya a true story ...
Great story Jim ...and so true.
I'm still trying to rein in my jumping around and am doing much better than I used to. It's kind a REAL challange when my current project has me researching all the unique ways people are making money. The temptation is incredible..I have more ideas than I know what to do with. But I promised myself (and my wife) I wouldn't get distracted...so far so good. :-) Thanks for the reminder. Ron 1001 Unusual Ways People Are Making Money and How They Are Doing It! |
A good woman ...
is an anchor at port, and a main sail on the sea of life.
Jim |
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