The image is from https://www.elmwoodparkzoo.org/animal/donkey/.
The typical market price for a donkey was $100, but a man wanted to sell an old donkey for $50. The vendor waited for a long time. Then, just as he was about to go home, a Jew named Miles stopped him and offered to buy his donkey.
When the deal was done, Miles went away happy. When he got home, his wife asked him, “Why did you buy such an old donkey?” Miles smiled and said, “Money.” His wife tried to ask him again, but Miles would give her no other answer. He sealed up a cardboard box and cut a slot in the top. Then he gathered a large number of paper slips and wrote “donkey” on one of them.
The next day, Miles went into town with his donkey and the stuff he had prepared. “Raffle!” he shouted. “Two dollars a ticket, one donkey for the winner.”
In less than an hour, Miles had sold all 1,000 tickets that he had prepared. Then he gave his donkey to the winner of the raffle and went home.
When his wife saw him coming back alone, she asked him how much he got for the donkey. Miles handed the money to his wife, who was surprised. How could he have made so much money over a donkey that was worth only $50?
Miles said: “Real money is not in the donkey, but the mind. What I paid for is the price of a donkey, but what I sold is human nature. Those who buy a lottery ticket think that they are paying $2 to gamble for a donkey. It is worth giving it a try. It is all right to lose a bet, and it is only $2. Most people are keen on gaining petty advantages, and If I set the price higher, people will not buy it. Therefore, when something is good in quality and low in cost, they will spend money happily.”
This is Jewish thinking. You may be in desperate circumstances, but as long as you are inventive, you have unlimited possibilities…
《猶太人的“賣驢”思維!》
在市場中,正常的一頭驢的價格是100美元,但是有個人的驢年紀大了,就想著以50美元的價格賣出。等了很久,小販的驢也沒有賣出去,就在他准備回家的時候,一個叫麥爾斯的猶太人叫住了他,說願意買他的驢。
交易完成后,麥爾斯很高興地走了。回家后,妻子問他:“你買一頭這麼老的驢干什麼?”麥爾斯笑了笑說:“賺錢啊。”妻子想要再問,麥爾斯卻不再回答了。之后他找來一個紙箱,把幾個面都封嚴實了,又在上面挖了一個洞,正好夠手臂伸進去。然后又拿出一疊紙,在其中一張上寫著“驢”。
第二天,麥爾斯帶著自己的驢和晚上准備的東西來到鎮上,對人們喊著:「抽獎啊,2美元一張,中獎者可得驢一頭。」
不到一個小時,麥爾斯准備的1000張獎券就全部賣出去了。之后他將自己的驢交給中獎者,就回家去了。
妻子看他一個人回來,就問他驢賣了多少錢?麥爾斯將手裡的錢遞給妻子,妻子很驚訝,50美元買的,怎麼會賣了這麼多?
麥爾斯說:「真正賺錢的不是驢,而是我的思維。我買的時候是驢的價格,但賣的卻是人性。這些人在買獎券的時候,想的是「2美元一頭驢,很值,就算不中也沒什麼」,所以都願意花2美元買。世界上大部分的人都有貪便宜的性格,如果我將價格定高了,人們就不會買了。所以,當有一個「物美價廉」的東西存在時,他們才會爽快地花錢。
🔶️這就是猶太人的思維,你可能會陷入絕境,但是只要思維不僵化,就擁有無限的可能 ⋯