Fortune Favors the Bold
 One more dollar in the kitty |
Walking down the street today I found a crumpled dollar bill. I guess the goddess Fortuna has smiled upon my efforts. Or something. In any event, that brings my stake up to $2.21, which puts me past Step 4. Only 20 more steps to go.
You may scoff at my tiny victory of trebling my 40¢ stake, by the way, but consider this: vast fortunes are made every year on such tiny profits. McDonald’s makes billions selling 99¢ double cheeseburgers. Much of 3M’s success came from selling cheap, tiny Post-It pads. The only thing separating my one profitable little sale and a multi-million dollar business is finding a way to repeat it enough times. It’s all just a matter of scaling up. As the Bard would say, there’s the rub.