| There was a young boy named Michael. In 1997, | | | | corporation. How did he go about it? When he |
| the twelve-year old boy Michael sat on a beach | | | | was in high school, he brought his first computer |
| along the Gulf of Mexico and painstakingly put | | | | and took it apart to figure out how it worked. |
| together a device a system where severally fish | | | | Imagine the patience of taking the new computer |
| hooks can be attached to a number of ropes. It | | | | apart and putting it back. |
| was a new invention so his parents and two | | | | A portion of a yard was divided for two servants |
| brothers who were busy fishing advised him to | | | | to weed. Now, there are two ways of getting rid |
| grab a pole and join them all rather than waste his | | | | of weeds in the yard. The easy way and the not |
| time on the invention. As far as they were | | | | so-easy way. One of the servants took the easy |
| concerned, what he was doing wasn't going to | | | | way, which is to run a lawnmower and the yard |
| work. | | | | looked fine for a while, but that is a temporary |
| Michael was the only one who knew what he | | | | answer. Soon the weeds are back. The second |
| wanted and so he believed in the beauty of his | | | | servant took the not so-easy way. This he did by |
| dream, though his family considered it of no value. | | | | getting down on his hands and knees and pulling |
| In the evening, when every other person was | | | | out the weeds by the roots. This is |
| ready to call it a day, Michael cast is new invention | | | | time-consuming and painful, but the weeds will |
| far into the water, anchoring it to a stick that he | | | | stay away for a longer time. The first solution |
| had plunged deep into the sand. During dinner, he | | | | appeared easy, but the problem remains. The |
| became a laughing stock about not being able to | | | | second solution was not so easy, but took care |
| catch a single fish for that day. | | | | of the problem from the roots. |
| But after dinner, young Michael quietly checked on | | | | I have always maintained that there is no excuse |
| his invention and discovered that there were | | | | why any living soul will not be able to achieve |
| more fishes than every member of the family | | | | anything he or she sets out to achieve. The most |
| had caught all together. His patience has paid off. | | | | important thing is for you to decide on what you |
| Seventeen years later, his patient persistence had | | | | want and then take action. Start small with |
| taken Michael dell from being a teenage inventor | | | | whatever is in your hands, wherever you are, An |
| to a tycoon. He became the fourth-largest | | | | English proverb says that, "he who would climb |
| manufacturer of personal computers in American, | | | | the ladder must begin at the button. |
| and the young man ever to head a fortune 500 | | | | |