Wes is an expert in Online Lead Generation. Born and raised in the beautiful country of Zimbabwe, like anyone with any sense he left in 2001 and now lives in London. This is his tumblelog.
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“Her mind is sharp as a tack, especially her business mind.
She and my grandfather used to own a store in Boston that sold freezers, which came fully stocked with frozen meat. That was their way of adding value to a commodity product.
That was over 50 years ago.
I asked her this weekend how she compares her memories of the Depression with what’s happening in our economy today.
Her answers are rich in wisdom, certainly rivaling even the most well-known business gurus dispensing their advice for a fee.
I’d encourage you to read her answers a few times, think about them, and then let them fill you with confidence and inspiration for our future.”
We can extract from human history a couple of principles. First, the principle that really isolated groups are at a disadvantage, because most groups get most of their ideas and innovations from the outside. Second, the principle of intermediate fragmentation: you don’t want excessive unity and you don’t want excessive fragmentation; instead, you want your human society or business to be broken up into a number of groups which compete with each other but which also maintain relatively free communication with each other. And those I see as the overall principles of how to organize a business and get rich.
