For your friend to say someone should stop working because they're rich is like someone saying the Beatles should've stopped making music because they were rich. "They were at the top of their game and should have quit. They'd made enough music...why should they make more?"

Well, they had something inside that drove them. A need to create, to perfect, to build on the vision the saw (or heard) in their minds. It probably wasn't about money.

We often admire those with that drive to win or whatever in other fields such as music or sports. But those with that drive in the business world we often view with discrimination.

I suppose it's because in those other areas we can kid ourselves into thinking they got to the top because of luck or natural born talent.

But it's hard to think luck or talent is what gets you rich in the business world. So instead of admitting that we're too lazy to build that drive to win within ourselves we kid ourselves with something else. That those who reach the top in the business world get their with avarice and immoral ends such as kicking people off the ladder of success as they climb to the top.

But is there really a difference in anyone who succeeds whether it be the musician or the businessman? I agree, it's not the money behind the drive to succeed in most cases. I'm sure many of us have heard it said that money is just the way of keeping score. It's the competition in most cases...to create a business from the ground up or to give someone a piece of new music of the likes they have never heard before. It all comes down to doing what it takes to be the best, become your best, or give your best.

Here's to becoming winners...whatever we try to do.