Adding Wealth By Helping Others

Essentially most of our work involves helping someone (your customer, your employer, your coworker) solve a problem of some sort.  In essence when we solve problems we are creating value in this world.  This is a very general statement, but really when you think about it, new products and services are always created as a direct or indirect result of simply helping someone solve a problem, or overcome an obstacle. 

So if you want to create a lot of value in this world, find a problem, an obstacle, an inconvenience, a handicap, an annoyance that people want to overcome.  If you can offer a solution that is more valuable to that person than their money (which ultimately represents their time), you will enrich yourself but also make the world that much richer.