My Own Vegas?

I was away over the weekend enjoying a girls weekend with a good amount of swimming, biking, and running which was great fun. While I was there I met a gal who works for the gaming industry and we talked a little bit about how some machines pay out a little at a time to keep you interested while others don't payout at all but when they finally do it's huge.

For some reason, during yesterday's run, I started to think about how running a small business is really not that different then gambling. In some cases or even with some products within a company's portfolio there is a small but relatively consistent payout at a fairly regular business. But just like sitting down to a slot machine, that money you get from these regular payouts typically goes right back into the business machine in the hopes that one day that business will hit the jackpot and payout big.