The positive side of getting fired
Harvey Mackay
The famous British author W. Somerset Maugham liked to tell this story about a young priest of St. Peter's Church in London, who after discovering that the church's janitor was illiterate, fired him.
Jobless, the man invested his meager savings in a tiny tobacco shop where he immediately prospered. He then bought another shop, then another and still another, until he owned a large chain of tobacco stores all over Britain.
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