Big Time Business

Once a young man who was holidaying in a seaside village watched a group of fishermen getting back with their catch pretty early in the day. He approached them and asked them why they had returned ashore so quickly, “We have made our catch and so we are happy” they said, ‘But won’t you get a bigger haul if you stayed longer?” the youngster asked. “Yes, indeed” said the fishermen. “Then why didn’t you?” asked the young man. ' “We are happy with what we have. If we sell this it will give us sufficient money to keep us happy”, they said. “But you have so much of time. What do you do the whole day?” he asked. “We relax, play with our children, do a little gardening, a bit of social work, sing, dance and generally enjoy life”, they said.

The young man was not convinced. “But you are wasting such a good opportunity to make more money. If you stayed longer out in the sea and use bigger nets you will get a bigger Catch. You can sell that and make enough money to buy a bigger boat. You can slowly expand this way, earn more money and buy more boats. After a few years you could even Start your own processing plant or get into exports because the fishes you have here look to be of a special variety. You can have more luxuries and improve your quality of life by leaps and bounds,” he said.”

“But that would take a long time it seems said the fishermen. "yes....perhaps a decade", said the young man. "but once your business grows into a huge corporate, you can sell the shares of your company and make millions, you can then sit back, relax, enjoy yourself, spend time with the family, play your favorite sport and do all the things that you have always wanted to do".

"but that's exactly what we are doing now!"said the fisherman.