There's a joke a rabbi I admire likes to tell to illustrate how random "success" is. He was watching the news and they interviewed the richest man in Canada. T

There's a joke a rabbi I admire likes to tell to illustrate how random "success" is. He was watching the news and they interviewed the richest man in Canada. The interviewer asked, "How did you make your fortune?" "Well, when I came to Canada, I had nothing but five cents. I used those five cents to buy an apple. I sold the apple for ten cents, and then bought two apples to sell. I sold those apples for twenty cents, and then I got a telegram that my uncle had died and left me three billion dollars."