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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
-Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Starting and knowing you are going in the right direction are the most difficult parts of any project or business.
In the Italian world: How do you prepare tomato jars and cappuccinos?
In the business world: How do you start growing your company? And Make More Profit?
Many moons ago, my partner and I were searching for a way to take our company from a mom/pop business to a full-fledged business. We would go to all the associations and talk to so many business owners. But I would see the same problem; not enough time, not enough of me to go around, and certainly not enough money for seven days a ...
"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline."
Jim Collins, Good to Great
The Right Tomato
There is a small town about an hour and a half southeast of Rome, Italy, called Boville Ernica. Boville Ernica is a town in the province of Frosinone, Lazio, Italy.
From a small town came a mother, Mamma Maria and her daughter, Annuciatina. They both lived on a small piece of land and lived and thrived by farming the land.
Life was hard: growing their food, raising cows, chickens, and goats, for milk, eggs, and cheese. They made money by selling or bartering their eggs from their chicken to enjoy just a little more of life, and surviving the Nazis during World War II.
But they were happy. It was a time with very little money ...
