Sausage of Happiness

I once saw a cartoon drawing of a dog hitched to a small, but well laden, cart. The dog's owner had found an ingenious method for getting it to pull the cart for him. A long pole, tied to the cart, dangled a sausage, temptingly. The dog, straining in vain to reach that sausage, hardly noticed the heavy cart he was dragging along behind him.

How may business people are like that! The keep thinking, "If I can make just a little more money, I'll find happiness at last." Somehow, their "sausage of happiness" keeps receding from their grasp. As they strain to reach it, however, just see what a cart-load of troubles and worries they drag along behind them!