13/08/2025
Read me!
About ten years ago, the world’s largest company, Microsoft, needed office boys — in other words, peons. The company selected twenty educated young men.
These twenty young men filled out job application forms and submitted them to the manager. When the manager reviewed the forms, he noticed that one candidate had not written his email address.
The manager asked him why. The young man replied, “Sir, I don’t have a computer… therefore, I have never made an email.”
The manager angrily said to him, “In today’s world, a person without an email address practically doesn’t exist, and we cannot give a job to someone who doesn’t exist.”
The manager stamped his application with “Rejected.” At that time, the young man had only ten dollars in his pocket. He decided to try his luck with those ten dollars. He bought tomatoes with the money and started selling them door-to-door in a neighborhood of the city.
In just one hour, not only did he sell all the tomatoes, but he also made a profit of fifteen dollars. The next day, he bought twenty dollars’ worth of tomatoes, which sold for forty dollars. Two days later, his capital reached one hundred dollars.
In short, his business took off. He started making rounds on a motorbike, then bought a van, and later purchased a large truck, using it to deliver vegetables to people’s homes. Soon, that truck grew into a full-fledged company.
He built large warehouses, hired 200–250 employees, purchased 20–25 vehicles, and began supplying vegetables to the entire city.
Within three to four years, his company expanded to other states in the USA, and he became a millionaire.
During this time, he decided to get insurance. The insurance agent came, he filled out the insurance form, and the agent said to him:
“Mr. Philip, please give me your email address so I can send you the contract.”
Philip smiled and replied, “But I have never made an email.”
The insurance agent looked at him in astonishment and said, “That’s amazing, sir! You achieved all this success without a computer or email. Just imagine, if you had been using a computer and email, where would you be today?”
Philip laughed and said:
“If I had an email, I would be an office boy at Microsoft right now… because those nineteen young men who had email addresses are still working there as office boys.”
Moral of the Story:
Sometimes, missing out on one opportunity opens the door to far greater ones. Success doesn’t depend on having every modern tool — it depends on vision, hard work, and the courage to start small.
