Money: The Unauthorised Biography
How to Attract Money
What Money Can’t Buy
This is a story of a man in a village read in some book that money attracts money. He was a poor man, he had one rupee. He thought that if money attracts money I must go to some place where there is a lot of money so that I may keep my rupee near it and my rupee may pull to itself lots of rupees. He went to the city and reached the shop of a rich merchant. It was evening time and all the rupees from the sales were being counted. Sitting on the step of the shop the man started tinkling his rupee. He tinkled the rupee for quite a long time but no other rupee was drawn to it.
Then he thought perhaps the distance was too much. So, he threw his rupee on the pile of the rich merchant’s rupees. He waited for some time to see his rupee come back with other rupees. But it did not happen. Then he said to the merchant, ”The book is incorrect – please return my rupee.”
The merchant asked, ”Which book?” He said, ”I read in a book that money attracts money.” The merchant said, ”The book was right, the rupees have pulled the rupee, you go to your home. Mad man, can one rupee pull so many rupees! That book was right, money has pulled money. You go to your home now and never even by mistake say that the book was wrong.” And that poor man never said again to anyone that the book was wrong because the book was proved to be right.
