The Profit Prophet

O ne thing I love is stories about how seemingly random events turn out to be huge successes. It is amazing how often these kismet moments result and macromental changes in history...and well, the following story is so evident of this randomness...but it is not randomness at all, it is the power of developing a network, even it that network is just one other person!. If you were in the market for a watch in 1880, would you know where to get one? You would go to a store, right? Well, of course you could do that, but if you wanted one that was cheaper and a bit better than most of the store watches, you went to the train station! Sound a bit funny? Why were the best watches found at the train station? The railroad company wasn't selling the watches, not at all. The telegraph operator was. Most of the time the telegraph operator was located in the railroad station because the telegraph lines followed the railroad tracks from town to town. It was usually the shortest dist...