Bill Gates is quoted as saying “there has never been a time like the present, with so many opportunities”. It’s almost like the California gold rush, only its so much bigger, because of the global reach of the Internet and other global technologies. The possibilities are endless.
Everybody is “looking” for opportunities, but very see it and even fewer exploit it. There’s the now famous story of the two men who visited India together. Upon their arrival in India one of the men was so struck and rather appalled by the abject poverty of the masses. His companion however, saw something else.
He saw an opportunity, an opportunity to shoe millions of feet and make himself a fortune in the process.
This man is said to have gone on and established a shoe company which produced millions of shoes and made him a very wealthy man.
There are thousands of other similar stories, of people who turned what seemed to be somebody’s problem into a fortune, including the story of South African born Hotel magnate Sol Kerzner.
Kerzner turned an Island in the Bahamas which was considered only good enough to be used as a...