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一个失业者想去微软找份清洁工的工作。那里的经理安排了一个能力测试。经过测试， 经理说你每天的工资是30美元。把你电子邮箱给我，我给你发张表格填一下，然后告诉你第一天去哪里报到工作。” 失业者大吃一惊，他说他既没有电脑，也没有电子邮箱。听了这些，经理回答说嗯，那意味着你实际上并不存在，所以你别指望被录取了。" 这个人感到震惊，然后就离开了。他不知道要再去哪应聘,而且身上只有10美元了，于是他决定去超市买一箱10公斤的番茄。不到两个小时，他就以100%的利润把番茄卖掉了。 那天重复了几趟，晚上睡觉前，他有了将近100美元。 就在那天，他想其实他可以很容易地以卖番茄为生。于是每天起得越来越早，晚上睡得越来越晚，很短一段时间后，他的利润与日俱增。没过多久，他就拥有了一辆手推车来运输数十箱的番茄。第一年年底，他拥有了一支皮卡车队伍，管理着数百名员工，他们都是先前失业的人，现在都在卖番茄。 考虑到妻子和孩子的未来，他决定买人寿保险。他打电话给保险顾问，根据自己现在的条件挑了一份保险计划。电话交谈快结束时，顾问向他要电子邮箱，以便给他传送文件。这人回答说他没有邮箱时，顾问真的惊呆了："什么？你没有电子邮件？没有网络、邮件、电子商务，你到底如何积聚了这么多财富？想像一下，如果你一开始就联上了网络，现在你会去哪里了！”一阵沉默之后，番茄百万富翁说："当然！我可能已经是微软的清洁工了！” No E-mail Account An unemployed man goes to try for a job with Microsoft as a cleaner. The manager there arranges for an aptitude test. After the test, the manager says, "You will be appointed on the scale of $30 per day. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and advise you where to report for work on your first day. ” Taken aback, the unemployed man protests that he is neither in possession of a computer nor of an e-mail address. To this the manager replies, "Well, then, that really means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed." Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and only having about $10 left, he decides to buy a 10kg box of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells the tomatoes singly at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night. And thus it dawns on the man that he could quite easily make a living by selling tomatoes. Getting up earlier and earlier every day and going to bed later and later, he multiplies his hoard of profits in quite a short time. Not too long thereafter, he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes. By the end of the first year, he is the owner of a fleet of pickup trucks and manages a staff of several hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Considering the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Calling an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order that he might forward the documentation. When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, “What? You don't even have e-mail? How on earth it have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would have been by now, if you had been connected from the very start!” After a moment's silence, the tomato millionaire replied, "Sure! I would have been a cleaner at Microsoft!” |
