A lot of people dream of becoming a millionaire, as is witnessed by the 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'? television program.
However, for most people let the 'system' to trap them into thinking they don't have the ability to succeed.
They don't have 'what it takes'.
This is a lie! Microsoft advertised for cleaning staff.
An unemployed man felt good about applying for the position.
The manager of Microsoft was happy to arrange for the man to sit the aptitude test.
At the completion of the test, the manager told the man, "You will be employed for a minimum wage of $5.
00 an hour.
Give me have your e-mail address, so I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work".
The man exclaimed that he didn't have either a computer or an e-mail address.
The Microsoft manager replied, "That makes you virtually nonexistent and can therefore hardly be expected to be employed by Microsoft".
The man left, absolutely stunned.
Ten dollars was all that he had left.
Suddenly the man had a flash of Blue Moon Opportunity and decided to buy 25 lb of lush red tomatoes from the market.
In less than two hours he had sold all the tomatoes one by one, and achieved a 100% profit.
Several more times that day the man repeated the process, until he ended up with almost $100.
00 before going to sleep that night.
He now knew he could easily make a living selling tomatoes.
Every day he rose real early and wouldn't go to bed until real late, as he continued the process day in day out.
He quickly increased his profit margin.
It was not long before he was able to purchase a cart to convey several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he could buy a pickup truck to support his continuously expanding business.
By the end of the second year, the 'unemployed man' owned a fleet of pickup trucks and managed a staff of a hundred former-unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.
Feeling he needed to plan for the future of his wife and children, he made up his mind to buy some life insurance.
After consulting an insurance agent, he decided on an insurance plan, fitting for his new circumstances.
At the end of the telephone call, the adviser asked him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.
The man told the agent that he had no e-mail address.
Spluttering the stunned insurance broker said, "What, you don't have e-mail address? How on earth have you managed to gather so much wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be now, if you had been connected to the Internet from the very beginning"! "Yes replied the tomato millionaire, "I would just be a cleaner at Microsoft"! From this story we can learn five great lessons: 1.
Your life does not need to be ruled by Cyber Space, if you have the spirit of an entrepreneur.
2.
If you don't happen to be the owner of an e-mail account, but are prepared to work hard, you could still become a millionaire.
3.
Since you got this story via the Internet, you're probably more likely to be on your way to being a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire, unless you think outside the box.
4.
If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.
5.
If you aspire to becoming a millionaire, never give up.
Look for that once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity.
Think outside the norm.
Don't give in to the negative people around you.
You will find a way if you have the will.
Sidney Myer's entrepreneurial drive began the great the chain of Myer stores in Australia, from little.
His family were refugees from Moscow in the late 1900's.