If You Have To Copy, Copy Success

That's a very good thing; you should always try your best to be original and unique.

However,

To re-create something that has already been created is called "re-inventing the wheel". That's what they call it and it is a waste of time.

The founder of the hot dog restaurant chain "Nathan's Famous", Nathan Handwerker, came to America at the age or 20.

Just like some of us, he got a job as a dishwasher.

Side note >> as I write this, I thought I should let you know that my first job in America... I was a dishwasher in Maxi City, a small Jewish restaurant in New City, NY.

How did Nathan go from being a dishwasher to becoming the hot dog Mogul?

The first thing you should know is Nathan did not invent the hot dog. The hot dog was invented by his boss, Mr. Charles Feltman, back in 1874. Nathan happened to be the one who made the "Hot Dog" Famous!

There are good ideas all around you, great ideas that can make you rich beyond you wildest dreams but you do not see them.

You do not see them because you are not looking for them.

No...

you're so busy trying to be original when all you have to do is add salt, pepper, and ketchup to something that has already been created.

I personally believe that I can become a very rich man if I can only network all the Haitian communities all over the world.

I think it's a problem that needs to be fixed, so, I quit my job, and I will die trying.

There are many people in the Haitian community that are sitting on great ideas. Actors, singers, talented artists are dying poor because there is a lack of great men and women with great vision in our community who take the time to "SEE" these things and turn them into million dollar ideas.

When I moved to Florida, I bumped into a restaurant chain called Pollo Tropical, a Rice-and-beans-and-chicken fast food restaurant.

Haitian food tastes much better than that. We are the king of rice and beans yet others market rice and beans better then us.

The answer is "YES" you can turn rice and beans into a fast food restaurant chain.

Most the time, the inventor or the talented person is terrible at marketing his own invention.

You cannot be a great marketer if you are content just to make enough to buy a nice house and a nice car.

The "Citadelle" was not built by a man who wanted a nice house, it was built by a man who had vision, It was built to protect his invention, Black Freedom, that's why it still stands 200 years later.

If you really want to do great things, you have to "WANT" to live forever. Your body will die but your name and your invention will live forever.

There are great products right here in the Haitian Community waiting to be discovered by a great Haitian marketer, but we are all so busy trying to reinvent the wheel.

All this is happening because we are not a nation who believes in investing in other people.

Perhaps we should.

"10 Kòb sou goud", that's all I want.

People call me all the time asking me "Woody how come you are not selling CDs and DVDs online, with all the websites you have, you would make a lot of money".

I am not in the business of selling CDs, I am in the business of telling you that CD or DVD is out there and where you can get your copy.

That's all I want to do right now and I want to do it well.

Be careful who and what you copy. If noone comes to you and tell you "Man you're crasy", you are not aiming high enough.

One more thing...

If you want to move our of your neighborhood, DO NOT copy your next door neighbor, if he knew how to get out, he would not be you next door neighbor.

In other words,

If you have to copy, copy the best, COPY SUCCESS!

Article © 2005 by woodring Saint Preux

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