The Not-so Golden Matzo Ball

Recently, I heard a story about a matzo company in New York City who had been in business for many years. Real estate prices being so high, they sold their building on the lower East Side and moved to New Jersey. It turns out the sale of the building was more profitable than selling matzo balls. Ironic.

Someone once told me that George Lucas made more money on the Star Wars merchandise than he did on the original films. These stories raise some interesting questions...

Perhaps your business/skill and how you make money are two separate things? And if so, how do you measure your success? Even further then, is success tied to money or the value of what you do?

Comments

[J.Crow]

Yes, the best kind of success defines itself as the value of one's activity for benefiting other's. Rather than creating "successful obstacles" from which one benefits at the expense of others, a better approach to financial success would be to have it occur as a secondary cause to a primaryintention of educating, harm reduction and minimizing confusion. Cultivating inspired sanity is profit with the greatest social benefit.