Often, Mulla Nasruddin stood in the market to be pointed out as a fool. No matter how often people offered him a large and a small coin, he always chose the smaller one. One day, a kind man said to him, “Mulla, you should take the bigger coin. Then you will have more money and people will no longer make a laughing stock of you.” Mulla said, “But then, people will stop offering me money to prove that I am more foolish than they are. Then I would have no money at all.” Mulla even went as far as to open a booth with a sign above it, ‘Two questions on any subject answered for only a 100 Silver Coins’. A man, who had two questions, asked, “A hundred silver coins are rather expensive for two questions, aren’t they?” “Yes, what is your next question?” said Mulla. The man was taken aback.
Mulla’s Money-Making Ideas
