Business Day  AT LUNCH WITH -- LAURA NASH; Grab the Brass Ring,
or Just Enjoy the Ride?  Published: June 27, 2004  ASK Laura
Nash why contentment seems so elusive to so many people, and she
tells the tale of a young entrepreneur she met a few years ago.
He had just sold his software business for $19 million, making
him, at 39, a clear master of one universe who, she would have
thought, would be ready to tackle another.  Was he proud? Happy?
Eager to try something new? No. ''He felt ashamed to tell his
peers he hadn't made more,'' Ms. Nash recalled.  And that makes
absolutely no sense to her. Sure, she thinks that money and the
things it buys are great. But she cannot understand why people
rarely feel that they have enough money, and why they are driven
to get more, more, more.  She feels the same way about
professional accolades, a person's impact on the world, even
love. Why, she asks, can people at the top of their profession
not take time out to play golf? Why can good parents not take
time to tend to thei