Happy Halloween Everyone!

Fascinating scenario! One area I have focused on in the past nine months or so is abundance in all aspects, so I have surrounded myself with people who exude abundance.

I have several multi-millionaire friends now, which a year ago I would have thought could not happen. I have learned MANY lessons from these individuals as I have observed how they think, act and do business.

And ofcourse, the contacts alone bring more contacts which bring more contacts which bring more contacts. Remaining open to the opportunities is one of the greatest lessons of all.

WIth Purpose and Passion,

JULIE JORDAN SCOTT

> A friend of mine told me this story he saw
> on a TV documentary.... Tell me what you
> think.... :)

> A well known shipping tycoon -- till his
> death in 1975 -- was Aristotle Onassis. You
> probably know of Aristotle Onassis as the
> husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the
> widow of President John F. Kennedy....

> Aristotle Onassis was asked what he would do
> if suddenly he lost all his money.

> Here's how he answered.... He said:

> "I'd get a job, and work till I had
> saved up $300. Then I'd go buy myself an
> expensive suit, and go to where the rich
> people hang out...." The point of this
> story was the importance of CONTACTS! That's
> what he'd do when he reached "where the
> rich people hang out".... He'd start to
> make business contacts.

> (Of course, $300 was worth a lot more in the
> 1970s when he probably said this than it is
> now.... An "expensive suit" now
> would cost more than that....)

> Now, I KNOW that not everyone agrees with
> this conclusion.... Some will, and some
> won't.... But to continue....

> It's possible to run a business, purely
> based on contacts!

> When I read this, I was stunned.... I had no
> idea it was possible. Here's how.

> I'll let Joe Cossman tell the story.... He
> says....

> When I came out of the U.S. Army after
> World War II, I looked for a job like
> thousands of other GI's. I was fortunate to
> land a job with an export firm in my
> hometown for $35 a week. They put me in
> charge of two countries, Venezuela and
> Argentina, and I corresponded with the
> company's agents in these two countries. The
> company I worked for sold railroad
> equipment. I would write a letter to the
> agent in Venezuela, introduce myself and in
> a couple of weeks he would send me an
> inquiry asking for a quote on my maybe 60
> miles of railroad track, 3 million railroad
> ties, maybe 10 million spikes, possibly 10
> locomotives, 20 passenger cars, or 200
> freight cars. This was a direct-mail inquiry
> and I never saw the agent. When I received
> this inquiry, I would make a phone call to
> the company who made the locomotives, a
> phone call to the steel company, a phone
> call to the company that made railroad ties,
> etc.

> The company I worked for owned nothing but
> contacts , and when I got the prices in my
> office I would add an 18-percent profit
> margin, send my quotation to the foreign
> agent, and in many cases a letter of credit
> would come back for four, five, or six
> million dollars. This, to me, was
> inconceivable at the time. Here I was
> corresponding with a man 2,000 miles away
> and I never even saw him! Our only contact
> was a letter, a postage stamp, and an
> envelope. In it's most simple form, that is
> direct mail.

> I copied this system to earn my first big
> success with the laundry soap and continued
> to use it....

> (From Making It , by E. Joseph Cossman and
> William A. Cohen, p. 207-8.) The point
> here is that here is a business based on
> nothing but contacts! So, certainly for
> some businesses, contacts are vital -- since
> that's all there is!

> What do you think?

> Food for thought on this Halloween
> morning.... :)

> Dien Rice