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SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!
Have you ever heard of Victor Lustig? Probably not. Well, He is one of the cleverest conmen ever to have walked the surface of the earth. One of Lustig's trademark cons involved a "money-printing machine". With this scam, he would sell a machine that printed real 100 dollar bills. He would demonstrate the capability of the small box to clients, all the while lamenting that it took the device six hours to copy a $100 bill. The unsuspecting greedy clients, sensing huge profits, would buy the machines for a high price, usually not less than $30,000. By the time you realized that the machine contained only two real hundred dollar bills and a load of paper, Lustig would be long gone, along with your 30,000 plus dollars cash.
But even Lustig is no match to the American con artist, Joseph Weil. This man scammed people with all kinds of tricks, from selling them cheap "Indian Oil lands" the government had "no record of", to betting on fixed races and promising to double and triple people's investment with a "money printing chemical", Weil found a way of appealing to the innate corruption in everyone he met, and exploiting it for his personal gain. Over a lifetime, he made over 8 million dollars from people's greed. It is even believed that in 1889 Weil managed to sell a chicken to a wealthy prospector passing through Illinois for the price of a golden nugget! It is from this rumor that the term 'Chicken Nugget' stems from.
Recently, the Police recruitment scam rocked the nation Ghana, and much was made of it. Many of the victims of this scam believed they were paying for the opportunity to join the Police service without going through the usual entry requirements. They wanted to achieve their goal without doing what was legally required to obtain it. If they didn't have this corrupt mindset, would the scam have worked on them?
We usually complain about corrupt officials, but we must also examine our national psyche and honestly assess our own attitude to corruption. How do we feel about those who obtain riches by cheating the system? Do we revile them? Or do we revere them?
As human as we are, we always want something for nothing. Unfortunately, the bad nuts among us are fully aware of this fact, and will exploit it always.
We want to pass our exams but are not ready to sit and study for long hours!
We want to be successful but are not ready to put in Hard work!
We want to be the best at what we do but are not ready to sacrifice!
Isn't it appalling!
We always want the easy way out!
We always want something for nothing!
The smart conman, Joseph Weil once wrote:
"The desire to get something for nothing has been very costly to many people who have dealt with me and with other con men". He adds, "But I have found that this is the way it works. The average person, in my estimation, is ninety-nine per cent animal and one per cent human. The ninety-nine per cent that is animal causes very little trouble. But the one per cent that is human causes all our woes. When people learn—as I doubt they will—that they can't get something for nothing, crime will diminish and we shall live in greater harmony."
Friends, Napoleon Hill, the great American author sums it all up when he says,"THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SOMETHING FOR NOTHING", and truly there's no such thing!
As a matter of fact, you may end up losing more than enough trying to get something for nothing!
Let's put in the HARD WORK and smile at the SUCCESS when it arrives!
Let's put in something for that which we so much desire, and enjoy it when we finally succeed in getting it!
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