Stone Soup
Once upon a time in Eastern Europe there was a band of gypsies who’s thing it was to go house to house whenever they were hungry and hadn’t any means. They’d ring a random doorbell and ask whomever answered for a pot to cook in and a stone.
“That’s all we need for soup.” they’d say and smile.
Incredulous, and eager to be entertained, the people in the house would usually produce a pot, a stone and gather round the gypsies to watch them make Stone Soup.
After about an hour of sitting together around the fire, some of the people from the house would begin to get hungry. “Is it soup yet?” they would ask. “Not yet” the gypsies would reply.
“But an onion, a potato and a ham bone would surely hurry it along…”
The moral of this story is “Capital without action is just money.”