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            How much faster can a million-dollar horse run than a ten-thousand-dollar horse?  Several years ago at the Arlington Futurity, the difference between first and second place was $100,000.  The Arlington Futurity is a race of one and one-eighth miles, which as you well know is 71,280 inches.  (You did know that, didn’t you?)  The difference between first place and second place was just one of those 71,280 inches.  That’s right. There was 1/71,280th difference between first and second place, and I might repeat that other inch other inch was worth $100,000.

            The winner jockey in the 1974 Kentucky Derby was paid $27,000.  Less than two seconds later, the jockey who brought his horse home in fourth place crossed the finish line.  He was paid $30.  Now whether that is right or wrong is beside the point.  That’s the way the game of life is played and we cannot change the rules of the game.  What we can do is learn the rules well and then play them to the best of our ability.

See You At The Top, Zig Ziglar, page 204