When you heard the word “Business”, what would you think in your mind? Job? Work? Buy and Sell? Money? Spend? Cost? Demand? Supply? Need?

“Business is about all activities and institutions that produce and/or provide, distributes and consumes necessary things and services that we need in our daily life” (Translated from Pengantar Bisnis, Jatmiko,RD,UMM Press 2004, Malang, page : 2).

If you read the phrase above once again, you will realize that everything is about business, aren’t they? Think about this:

When you use your phone or internet you sure need money to pay the connection, aren’t you? If you want to go to some place, work maybe, you need transport. Whether it is a cab or your own car, you need money to pay the cab or to buy gas, rigth? You store your money in a bank, you got interest every month but you also need to pay for their sevices every month or so we call administration fee. You also sometimes take loan from a bank, you got money but you have to pay back everymonth to the bank along with the interest added. You buy books, newspapers, magazines. You buy something you need in supermarket, store or something as simple as coffee from your neighbor’s stall.

Government providing us with many public services, such as water supply, electricity, road, public phone, public hospital, and many others services. But, that all is not for free. Water supply, electricity, road are some that we pay in taxes. To use public phone we need coins, and certainly you have to pay medicine and services in hospital even if it is a govement/public hospital. I don’t know about your country, but here in Indonesia we do pay for public hospital’s services.

That’s all business. Involving activities in producing, providing, distributing, and consuming necessary and spesifics things we needed.

So, whether you are a real businessman/businesswoman or just simply a student or an unemployee, you do doing business in your daily life. Why don’t you be the one that provide something they need rather then only as a consumer?

God Bless…