"Renunciation of the fruits of action bringeth peace and satisfaction." That is Krishna's teaching to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. The fruit is what gets released. The action is complete in itself.

In May 1884, a Ponzi scheme run by his own business partner wiped out Ulysses S. Grant's entire fortune in a single afternoon. He left his Wall Street office with $80 in his pocket, and his wife pulled another $130 from a cookie jar. Months later, a doctor examined the growing pain in his throat and diagnosed inoperable cancer. Grant would not live to see another year.