--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Juan Ek Halim <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Juan Ek Halim <[email protected]>
Subject: What is recession?
To:
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 8:20 PM
What is recession?
This Story is about a man who once upon a time was selling Hotdogs by the
roadside. He was illiterate, so he never read newspapers. He was hard of
hearing, so he never listened to the radio. His eyes were weak, so he never
watched television. But enthusiastically, he sold lots of hotdogs. He was
smart enough to offer some attractive schemes to increase his sales. His sales
and profit went up. He ordered more a more raw material and buns and use to
sale more. He recruited few more supporting staff to serve more customers. He
started offering home deliveries. Eventually he got himself a bigger and better
stove.
As his business was growing, the son, who had recently graduated from College,
joined his father.
Then something strange happened.
The son asked, "Dad, aren't you aware of the great recession that is coming our
way?" The father replied, "No, but tell me about it." The son said, "The
international situation is terrible. The domestic situation is even worse. We
should be prepared for the coming bad times."
The man thought that since his son had been to college, read the papers,
listened to the radio and watched TV. He ought to know and his advice should
not be taken lightly. So the next day onwards, the father cut down the his raw
material order and buns, took down the colorful signboard, removed all the
special schemes he was offering to the customers and was no longer as
enthusiastic.
He reduced his staff strength by giving layoffs. Very soon, fewer and fewer
people bothered to stop at his hotdog stand. And his sales started coming down
rapidly, same is the profit..
The father said to his son, "Son, you were right". "We are in the middle of a
recession and crisis. I am glad you warned me ahead of time."
Moral of The Story: Its all in your MIND! And we actually FUEL this recession
much more than we think
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible!
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