Posted in: Pop by John Carter on September 11th, 2008 | 0 Comments
How pop started a business with nothing that became a world leader in its field.
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It is not actually money that will make a business succeed it is more the will of the founder. All the gold in the world will not mean as much as the founder’s state of mind. An example of this is how a company was founded from nothing and became a world leader in its field.
Pop had a problem, the town was after him to install a septic system because his cesspool was running across his property, and running into the street. He didn’t have the money to fix the problem, but it had to be fixed soon. He worked in a place however that made and bagged dry concrete mix. They also made readymix concrete to service a wide area in the valley. Everyday when he was leaving work he filled his lunch box with some of the dry concrete mix. When he got home he dumped his lunch box into a wooden box on his back poarch. Once he had gathered enough of the dry concrete mixture he went out into his yard and made a wooden form for a septic tank.
He didn’t even have a cement mixer; every thing he did was done by hand the old fashioned way with a mortar tub and a hoe. Once he got the concrete mixed he started pouring it into the form for the septic tank. As he was pouring a guy came along and yelled up to him, “Hey Pop what are you doing?”
Pop yelled back down to him, “I’m making a septic tank.”
The other guy yelled back, “How much do you want for it?”
At this point the guy left his car and came up to where Pop was working. They bargained around for awhile and finally arrived at a price of $40.00 for the tank. Pop told him to come back in three days when he could strip the form off the tank. Three days later the guy was back with the biggest wrecker in town and a trailer to put the tank on. Once ot was loaded; Pop knocked the form back together for a new tank. He called the readymix company, and told them he needed two yards of concrete.
