WORKING ONE’S WAY UP

Working One’s Way Up ~ 229 ~ WORKING ONE’S WAY UP A man entered a certain recruiting office and said, “I want to join as a soldier.” “But how old are you?” the sergeant asked. “Sixty,” was the man’s reply “You know quite well that sixty is too old for you to become a soldier.” “All right, if 60 is too old for a soldier, don’t you need any generals?” If one wants to start one’s career as a general, one will be hard put to it to do so. It’s just like a race where one can’t leap straight from the starting point to the finishing line. To succeed in anything, we have to be like the tree, starting from the seed, growing slowly and putting out branches, twigs, leaves and flowers when the appropriate times come around. Similarly, business starts with investing money, not with earning profits. The construction of a house starts with the laying of the foundation, not with the tiling of the roof. The