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A young man was going to open a shop on the street where his family was. He asked his father for advice, "I want to open a shop on our street to make money. What should I prepare first ?"
His father thought for a while and said, "the shops in our street are not few, but there are still front rooms. If you don't want to make more money, you can rent two front rooms now, put on the containers and buy some goods to open for business. If you want to make more money, you have to prepare to do something for the neighbors on this street ."
The young man asked, "What should I do first ?"
His father thought for a while and said, "there are a lot of things to do, for example, few people clean the leaves on the street, you can sweep the leaves on the street every morning, and, the postman delivers letters every day. There are many letters that are hard to find the recipient. You can also help find them and send them to the recipient in time. In addition, there are many families who need some small help, you can help them by the way ......"
The young man asked puzzled, "but what does this have to do with my opening a store ?" His father smiled and said, "If you want to do your own business well, all of these will be helpful to you. If you don't want to do your business well, then all of this may have little effect on you ."
Although the young man was half-confident, he still did it one by one as his father said. He cleaned the streets every day silently, helped the postman deliver letters, and carried water and firewood for several old people, the young people went there when they heard that they needed help when they encountered difficulties. Before long, people in this street knew this young man.
Half a year later, the young man's shop was opened. To his surprise, there were a lot of customers coming, far and near, almost all the neighbors on the street became his clients. Even some old people on the other side of the street gave up the nearby stores and didn't enter, holding crutches, he went to his shop far away to buy things. He was surprised and asked them, "there is a shop at the door of your house, but why do you want to seek for a long distance ?"
They smiled and said, "We all know that you are a good person. We are very relieved to buy things in your store ." Later, when he delivered the goods to his home, he always asked them to get the goods they needed first when he met some families who had difficulties temporarily. When they got rich, he would return the goods to him again, knowing that someone had suffered misfortune, he will take the initiative to help him generously.
A few months later, many people on the street rushed to his shop to buy things. More than a year later, all the people in the city knew that he and his shop came together, therefore, he opened branches and chain stores one by one in other streets. The business became bigger and bigger like a snowball. Of course, he earned more and more money. In just a few years, he turned from a young man with no name to an entrepreneur with tens of millions of assets.
One day when the journalist interviewed him and asked him why he had such a great harvest in just a few years, he thought for a while and said, "because before I learned to gain, I learned to pay first !"
