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Sports Used to Be About Passion. Now It’s Just Business. And I Am Getting Fed Up With That.
Loyalty is gone. The spirit is fading. And I’m starting to wonder, why am I still here?
“Show me the money!”
I used to shout this in my business and finance lectures. Tom Cruise-style. Like he did in the blockbuster “Jerry Maguire.”
It was a joke, sure, but one that also carried a deeper truth.
In the movie, Jerry screams it down the phone, desperate to prove his commitment to his client, Rod Tidwell, who is unhappy with the cash compensation in his contract.
My students understood this concept very well. In the end, money talks. It drives deals, corporate decisions, and destinies. Money is the force that builds businesses, breaks records, and fuels ambition. It is the pulse of every negotiation and why we rise before dawn and push ourselves beyond exhaustion.
However, the relentless drive to earn more and more money comes at a cost. When the hunger for it overshadows personal connections, everything begins to crumble. Joy fades, meaning dissolves, and people get hurt. Systems implode, and markets crash. When everyone scrambles to grab what they can before it all falls apart, we face a serious problem.
