纽约州法明代尔市的弗兰·索原在一家进口汽车配件公司会计部工作,她感到老板忽视了一个重要的赚钱机会——向遍布全国的梅塞德斯(德国名车),沃尔沃(瑞典名车)和萨布(法国名车)经销行卖替换车灯。这是一种本小利大的交易,老板却掉以轻心。 1975年9月,她获悉自己即将在机构精简中失去工作后,告诉丈夫:“我不想找另一家公司了。如果下半辈子还想干点事业,我宁愿给自己干！”丈夫的回答是:“干好了！事业不会找上门,得你去找它。” 弗兰给奥斯拉姆——一个德国车灯制造厂家发去传真,奥斯拉姆邀她到慕尼黑洽谈。她向该厂出口部经理许诺半年内将他们在美国的销量翻一番,经理大感兴趣,当下问她的公司的名字——可她还没有取呢！ Forlander, of Farmingdale, NY, who worked in the accounting department of an imported auto parts company, felt that her employer had overlooked an important opportunity to make money - to Mercedes (all over the country), Volvo Cloth (French car) dealership to sell replacement lights. This is a small profit transaction, but the boss took it lightly. In September 1975, when she learned that she was about to lose her job in institutional streamlining, she told her husband: “I do not want to find another company, and if I would like to do something in my second life, I would rather give myself to myself.” The answer from her husband was: “Good job! The business will not find a home, you have to find it.” Fran Osamam - a German manufacturer of headlight sent a fax, Osram invited her to Munich to negotiate. She promised the export manager of the plant to double their sales in the United States within six months, and the manager was greatly interested in asking the name of her company right now - but she has not taken it yet!