Commercialize Your Connections and Choose Your Friends from Among Merchants.

A deadly poison for a merchant or someone aspiring to start a business is close friendship with those who are not businessmen.

Most people who are not involved in trade and do not understand it are employed in labor or clerical jobs.

The understanding of workers and employees about the economy is limited to a small amount of money they receive at the end of the day or month.

They do not understand two things at all.

First, that the money a person can earn can be a very large sum.

Tell one of your employee or worker friends and acquaintances that you make a deal in which you earn an amount ten times their monthly income.

Rest assured, they will not believe it at first.

Once they do believe it, intense jealousy and ill-will towards you will surface within them, the same people you think like you.

The second difference you have with this group is the timing of earning money.

Since they have no concept of money gained from patience, every time they see you, they start mocking and insulting you, asking, "What happened? Didn't you earn anything?"

If you even had a farmer or livestock breeder friend, you would not encounter such a problem.

Farmers and livestock breeders know that their efforts will bear fruit after a year or several years, so they understand that your commercial efforts will also bear fruit within such a timeframe.

It is recommended that you commercialize your relationships as much as possible.

Make friends with merchants.

Greet and socialize with businessmen.

See how much you communicate with people in a day and analyze what percentage of these conversations are with merchants and what percentage are with non-merchants.

The more this ratio leans towards merchants, the more successful you are.

Arad is full of both successful and unsuccessful individuals.

All the unsuccessful ones have filled their surroundings with workers and employees.

The successful ones, however, have limited their interactions with workers and employees, unless they are their parents, siblings, or that they meet with an acquaintance by chance somewhere during the year.

If you want to become wealthy in trade, commercialize your relationships and distance yourself from non-commercial ones.

Arad is full of merchants and representatives who daily share their contact details on the site, in enterprises, and meetings, allowing you to make friends with them.

Instead of keeping the unhelpful and poor friends around you, decide now to make a fundamental change.

Set them aside and choose beneficial and wealthy merchant friends for yourself.

When you become wealthier, go back to your poor former friends, bring them into trade, and help them too.

It was asked of our Imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib: What should a poor person do to become wealthy?

He replied: Befriend and associate with wealthy people.