Here’s The Opportunity We All Have Right Now (And Every Day)

“Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.” Sun Tzu

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They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. In the case of Sam Zemurray, this couldn’t be more true.

Sam Zemurray arrived in America in 1891 at the age of 14 with nothing to his name. Sixty-nine years later, he died in the grandest house in New Orleans and one of the richest men in the world, and it started with something that you probably have in your kitchen — a ripe banana. You know, the banana with freckles, looks ugly but is still good.

While Boston Fruit was discarding and throwing the ‘ripes’ out, Zemurray saw an opportunity. Boston Fruit deemed these bananas waste, and saw no use for their operation, due to the short term timeline before they went bad. Zemurray saw these less than perfect bananas as an opportunity.

This little venture was just the start for Sam Zemurray, who would go on to build his own fruit company and make millions of dollars. It all started because he saw opportunity where others saw waste.

It’s a lesson as old as time, and yet we still need to learn in our own lives.

There have been countless stories of wealth throughout history built on this very concept. Many see…