Lesson of the Day

I’ve been reading (well, listening to the book on CD of) “The Millionaire Mind” by Thomas J. Stanley. While it’s no “Rich Dad, Poor Dad,” it is still quite informative. Today I heard a section that is really worded very well. It says;

“The really smart people in professional athletics are the team owners and the agents. These agents are an especially crafty group. They don’t have much specific talent themselves. They don’t run, kick, block, or score goals. They don’t sing or dance, yet they last and last. So what if you are one in a million on the football-talent scale? You were a high school All American, a First Team Collage All American, and the first running back drafted in the Pros this year. But you blew out a knee. Your agent, on the other hand, has a growing stable of your kind. He grows his business like people grow apple trees. Once you are in his orchard, you keep producing for him. When you can no loner produce apples, they remove your dead or dying trunk from the field. A replacement apple tree is inserted like the interchangeable parts of a machine.”

Brilliantly put, and applicable to so much more than just the world of professional athletics!