Two friends, John and Anderson, had joined a big sales company together just after graduation. Both of them worked really hard.
Five years have passed and the company‘s boss promoted one of them – Anderson became sales executive. John did not get any promotion and remained at administration department.
John decided that it is unfair, so he came to his boss and told him, that he does not appreciate a hard working staff. The boss knew that John works hard, and in order to show difference between him and Anderson, he asked: “Go and find anyone selling watermelons in the market.”
When John returned, the boss asked, “How much per kg?”
So John went back to the market and then returned to say the price, $12 per kg.
Then the boss asked Anderson the same thing. Anderson went to the market, and when he returned he told, “at the moment there is one person selling watermelons, $12 per kg, $100 for 10 kg, now he has 340 watermelons in stock. On the table there are 48 water melons, each of them weighs about 15 kg. Water melons were bought from the South two days ago, they are fresh and good quality.”
John was impressed by the difference between him and Anderson. He realized that he needs to learn a lot from his friend.
Observations make one successes. They think and see several years ahead, while most of people see only tomorrow.