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Most people never see these opportunities because they're looking for money and security, so that's all they getThe moment you see one opportunity, you will see them for the rest of your lifeThe moment you do that, I'll teach you something elseLearn this, and you'll avoid one of life's biggest trapsYou'll never, ever, touch that Tar Baby
Mike and I picked up our things from the store and waved goodbye to MrsWe went back to the park, to the same picnic bench, and spent several more hours thinking and talking
We spent the next week at school, thinking and talkingFor two more weeks, we kept thinking, talking, and working for free
At the end of the second Saturday, I was again saying goodbye to MrsMartin and looking at the comic-book stand with a c c purse longing gazeThe hard thing about not even getting 30 cents every Saturday was that I didn't have any money to buy comic booksMartin was saying goodbye to Mike and me, I saw something she was doing that I had never seen her do beforeI mean, I had seen her do it, but I never took notice of itMartin was cutting the front page of the comic book in halfShe was keeping the top half of the comic book cover and throwing the rest of the comic book into a large brown cardboard boxWhen I asked her what she did with the comic books, she said, "I throw them awayI give the top half of the cover back to the comic-book distributor for credit when he brings in the new comicsHe's coming in an hour
Mike and I waited for an hourSoon the distributor arrived and I omega geneve automatic asked him if we could have the comic booksTo which he replied, "You can have them if you work for this store and do not resell them
Our partnership was revivedMike's mom had a spare room in the basement that no one usedWe cleaned it out, and began piling hundreds of comic books in that roomSoon our comic-book library was open to the publicWe hired Mike's younger sister, who loved to study, to be head librarianShe charged each child 10 cents admission to the library, which was open from 2:30 to 4:30 pevery day after schoolThe customers, the children of the neighborhood, could read as many comics as they could in two hoursIt was a bargain for them since a comic costs 10 cents each, and they could read five or six in two hours
Mike's sister would roxanne mulberry check the kids as they left, to make sure they weren't borrowing any comic booksShe also kept the books, logging in how many kids showed up each day, who they were, and any comments they might haveMike and I averaged $90 per week over a threemonth periodWe paid his sister $1 a week and allowed her to read the comics for free, which she rarely did since she was always studying
Mike and F kept our agreement by working in the store every Saturday and collecting all the comic books from the different storesWe kept our agreement to the distributor by not selling any comic booksWe burned them once they got too tatteredWe tried opening a branch office, but we could never quite find someone as dedicated as Mike's sister we could trust
At an early age, we black quilted bag found out how hard it was to find good staff
Three months after the library first opened, a fight broke out in the roomSome bullies from another neighborhood pushed their way in and started itMike's dad suggested we shut down the businessSo our comic-book business shut down, and we stopped working on Saturdays at the convenience storeAnyway, rich dad was excited because he had new things he wanted to teach usHe was happy because we had learned our first lesson so wellWe had learned to have money work for usBy not getting paid for our work at the store, we were forced to use our imaginations to identify an opportunity to make moneyBy starting our own business, the comic-book library, we were in control of our own finances, not dependent on an fake cartier watches employer