THE MONKEY BUSINESS STORY

Once upon a time, lived a lot of monkeys near a  remote village.

One day a very rich merchant came to the village to buy these monkeys! He announced at the village market square that he will buy the monkeys at $100 each. passers by villagers thought the merchant to be insane. They thought how can a reasonable person buy stray monkeys at $100 each?
Yet, some smart ones caught some monkeys and gave it to this merchant and he gave $100 for each monkey. 

This news spread like wildfire and people caught monkeys and sold it to the merchant.

After a few days, the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys at $200 each. The lazy villagers also ran around to catch the remaining monkeys!

THE MISER STORY

A white bearded miser buried his gold in a secret place in his garden. Every day he ensures he visit the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was intact. He made so many trips that a mediocre  observed him,went behind one night and dug up the treasure and quietly made off with it.

The next day the Miser discovered his loss, he was overcome with grief and despair. He groaned and cried and tore his hair. A passerby heard his cries and asked what had happened.

SUCCESS SECRET STORY

A young soldier walked up to a  well adorn senior officer in the army and asked him "Sir, what is the secret of your success in the army?" I want to be successful too.
The officer looked at the young soldier steadily for about 3 minutes and gave him a life threatening order. He gave the young soldier a cup full of water and told him to walk round the training field five times. He clearly told him that his life depends on it. That if a drop of water fall from the cup, another soldier would shoot him on the head. Four soldiers were strategically positioned to shoot him down once a drop of water fall from the cup.

A SHORT CHRISTMAS STORY

It was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front (a crime punishable by death in times of war). German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas."

"You no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across a no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. They sang Christmas carols, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared rations, played football, even roasted some pigs. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to warn each other if the top brass forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high.

YOUR DESTINY IS IN YOUR HANDS

A young chap visit to a soothsayer to inquire about his future.

Right before his eyes, the soothsayer drew two circles: One in white and the other in black. 

He then put a millipede in-between the circles, saying "if the millipede crawls into the white circle , it connotes your future will be great,  but if otherwise, then you are doomed! You've lost hope!".