Business isn't about money flowing effortlessly into your pockets, fancy clothing and everyone's long life dream of becoming one's one boss having a permanent beach vacation with a laptop on you, not even passive income is!

Of course you can have that but that's the success part of it, the rewards for you having provided value to others. Business is actually just as you said: whether undertaking a profitable project (you build a business to provide value be it services or products) or building systems that generate money on their own later on (passive income like books, e-courses and yatayatayata), your main goal in business is giving value I can't stress that enough, quality!

Keep up the good posts!