A thread on how others words can engrave your soul:
I started a practice 10 years ago.
Every book I read I would write down the words that spoke to me.
Creating my own bible.
So that when times were dark, I had a light.
These are the ones I come back to again and again.
Emotion haunted his face. It was anguish, some kind of anguish, and the dull, stoic anger that hangs in the eyes of repetitive, ill-paid work.
He makes $10K a month operating vending machines??
How @quinnjmiller plays the Charlie Chocolate of robotic machines game.
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Give me the numbers baby....
Monthly run rate: $15k
Margins: 65%
Net profit: $9,750
Number of machines: 27
Total investment into biz: $50k
Time involvement weekly: 20hrs
What he could sell his biz for... $371kish maybe $400k
80/20 Rule Matters: What he sells most of?
12oz coke
I buy this item for $.33 (each) & sell for $1, this is a 67% margin
- a suburban man, who gets up at the same hour every weekday morning,
- takes the same train to work in the city,
- performs the same task in the office,
- lunches at the same place,
- leaves the same tip for the waitress each day
Comes home on the same train each night
- Has 2.3 children
- Cultivates a little garden
- Spends a 2-week vacation every summer which he does not enjoy
- Goes to church every Christmas and Easter