Of Percival and Pennies

Percival well and truly was a businessman from the moment he was born. When he was six years old, he’d sing and dance for his uncles and aunts—and then charge admission. Instead of doing the paper route when he was 12, he established a paper delivery service. He had a considerable amount of savings, you see, and he used this to buy 3 bicycles. These bicycles where then rented out to the other boys who wanted to run the paper route but had no bikes of their own. He convinced his older girl cousins to help him sell golf wear (don’t ask me how he got hold of these) to the neighborhood dads; figuring women would catch the attention of men easier hence paving more ways for possible sales. The venture lasted more than a year, but he had to break up the golf apparel ladies when the girls had to go to college. He earned close to three thousand dollars that year. Not bad for a 15-year old kid from nowhere land, Pennsylvania. He’s as liquid as water, and owns a chain of malls, a national radio station, a bus company and an airline company; and all because he believed that pennies work for Percival and not the other way around.