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​That's Your Worry

    Fresh out of business school, the young man answered a want ad for an accountant.

    Now he was being interviewed by a highly agitated, arrogant little man who ran a small business that he had started from scratch.

    "I need someone with an accounting degree," the man said. "But mainly, I'm looking for someone to do my worrying for me."

    "How's that?" the would-be accountant asked.

    "I worry about a lot of things，" the man said. "But I don't want to have to worry about money. Your job will be to take all the money worries off my back."

    "I see," the accountant said. "And how much will my position pay?"

    "I'll start you at eighty five thousand," responded the man decisively.

    "Eighty five thousand dollars!" the accountant exclaimed. "How can such a small business afford a sum like that?"

"That," the man said, "is your first worry. Now get to work!"

Golden Sayings:

Downy lips make thoughtless slips.

To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing. 

He works best who knows his trade.

He will always be a slave who knows not how to earn and save.

Experience is a school from which one can never graduate.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other. 

Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.

Nothing is difficult to a man who wills.

Nothing is impossible (or difficult) to the man who will try.