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On a recent trip to Jordan a friend of mine came across two young girls — just seven and four years old — siting by the side of the road selling rocks. Yes, rocks. The girls’ efforts took a lot of hard work and gumption. They believed in their product, stayed true to their strategy, and at the same time were open to beneficial compromise. We often rack our brains trying to find grand ideas for the next big thing. These kids simply saw a problem, worked out how they could solve it, and got on with it. Like the kids in Jordan and South Africa, I started out my business career young and with simple ideas. Throughout my career, I have been really lucky to have the opportunity to meet with and learn from a lot of young people. I recently visited a group of schoolchildren, who were taking their first steps into the business world with the Fiver Challenge. Open to kids aged 5—11 years across the UK, the Fiver Challenge aims to inspire creativity while challenging children to be entrepreneurial and make a profit.
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I can’t shake the suspicion that first-time visitors to my farm take a look at my machinery shed and think to themselves that I’ve gone overboard. How can I justify owning three tractors for the purpose of raising a few acres of strawberries on a Vermont hilltop? Well, the first two tractors have their particular uses, which I won’t go into here. The third tractor I own solely because my farm is on a Vermont hilltop. It’s my rock-picking machine. In the fields around here, rocks are like weeds: always plentiful, and with apparent powers of spontaneous regeneration. They’re the ever-belligerent enemies of the expensive equipment that I pull behind those first two tractors. It’s a never-ending conflict. On my side, the weapons are a crowbar and a spade. My big artillery is that third tractor. Spring, summer or fall, there’s hardly an idle moment that wouldn’t be better spent out fighting the rocks. I can just about get a day’s work done and lean back in my chair, when the unpleasant thought creeps into my mind that, while I’m taking my leisure, the rocks are calling in reinforcements. That third tractor is an ancient , to be precise International Harvester with a bucket loader on the front. It’s this loader that makes it my rock machine. I pick an armload of rocks out of the field, carry them over to the bucket and throw them in.
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First — Natural commercially known stones with name recognition, maie where you will make money. Markets change and Spinels are not as unknown as they used to be but are still not a well known gem stone. Second — You can only make money on stones that you can acquire in the rough or as rocls cut to be recut. Notice I did not say cheap, there is no such thing as cheap quality rough, yes you can occasionally get lucky and get a deal, but in general you will have to rodks good money for good rough. You should not let this bother you, all you need to know is that you can make money after you have cut the stone s. That being said, there are some stones you will not be able to get rough at all, or if you can get them, there is just no profit margin to mony. A classic example of this is Sapphires, you will very seldom if ever find commercial color blue, red, pink rough that you will be able to make money on. Also, there are some stones that are in such a high demand in the rough that they can be bought commercial cut for about the same price, top Rhodolite is a good example. Although that is changing. So the stones in general that you will be able to cut profitably at least in my experience are narrowed down to:. Tourmaline — Tourmaline of all colors is almost always a money maker for me. Garnet — Always sells well as long as the stones are not too dark. Peridot — Difficult to get in larger sized rough, but sells well if you. Emeralds are almost always junk and I very rarely cut them because of the treatments and the liability. Sapphires limited — Very difficult to get rough. An option is buying native cut stones and re-cutting. Spinels limited — Rough is difficult and the stone is not well known. I do well with it in the collectors market. Topaz limited — Not much profit in it, particularly blue.
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