Everything I needed to know about business, and much of my knowledge of life, came by pedaling a steel ice cream cart through the hot and muggy streets of my hometown.
• Enthusiasm wins over the grimmest customer
• Financial success is not measured by the margin on a popsicle, but only by counting more coins at day’s end than the previous day;
• Keep it simple: cherry and orange popsicles, fudgsicles, & ice cream bars sell. More exotic treats spoil;
• The slower you pedal the more you sell. The kids must sprint, beg for coins, and return before you leave their block;
• Eating your own product swells the belly and shrinks the wallet;
• Mothers never forgive if you ring your bell’s an hour before meals;
• A storage freezer will not grow. The more grapefruit popsicles you stuff in it, the less room there is for the good stuff;
• You learn to wash your hands after counting coins when you see some of them pulled out of athletic cups;
• A free fudgsicle will not win a girl’s heart as much as a good sense of humor;
• It is the chocolate grins and orange smiles that make it all worthwhile.
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Some great quotes that apply to life in general……..