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Friday, February 20, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Milton Friedman and Phil Donahue - 1979
cap⋅i⋅tal⋅ism - noun
an economic system based on private ownership of capital
share - verb
To allow someone to use or enjoy something that one possesses
You have a right to make your own decisions, as long as you don't violate someone else's right to make their own decisions. You have a right to learn what you want to learn, think what you want to think, work in the industry you want or build a business of your choice. There are a lot of laws in place to protect us from harming each other, but in essence we are supposed to be able to live our own lives.
Too many people are afraid to go it alone, to build a business and be self-employed. It's hard, no doubt. It's risky, the burden of success is on your shoulders, you'll work an insane number of hours. You used to be able to keep the fruits of your own labor, but that's changing now.
The overwhelming push to help people during troubled economic times has morphed in to a compulsory effort to "share" everything "equally" in our country. Today the immense time and energy you've spent building a life on your own terms so you have the freedom to make your own decisions for yourself is labeled as "greed".
Don't let the myth of fairness destroy your dreams. Manufactured fairness is not fair and confiscating your reward for your own efforts under threat of imprisonment is not sharing.
The late, brilliant economist Milton Friedman made an appearance on the Phil Donahue show in 1979. In this interview Donahue got an education in common sense and the reality of life, but it didn't seem to penetrate. To succeed in this socialistic environment you need to understand the difference between economic self interest and greed, and to distinguish between compassion and self-righteous pandering.
watch the interview
an economic system based on private ownership of capital
share - verb
To allow someone to use or enjoy something that one possesses
You have a right to make your own decisions, as long as you don't violate someone else's right to make their own decisions. You have a right to learn what you want to learn, think what you want to think, work in the industry you want or build a business of your choice. There are a lot of laws in place to protect us from harming each other, but in essence we are supposed to be able to live our own lives.
Too many people are afraid to go it alone, to build a business and be self-employed. It's hard, no doubt. It's risky, the burden of success is on your shoulders, you'll work an insane number of hours. You used to be able to keep the fruits of your own labor, but that's changing now.
The overwhelming push to help people during troubled economic times has morphed in to a compulsory effort to "share" everything "equally" in our country. Today the immense time and energy you've spent building a life on your own terms so you have the freedom to make your own decisions for yourself is labeled as "greed".
Don't let the myth of fairness destroy your dreams. Manufactured fairness is not fair and confiscating your reward for your own efforts under threat of imprisonment is not sharing.
The late, brilliant economist Milton Friedman made an appearance on the Phil Donahue show in 1979. In this interview Donahue got an education in common sense and the reality of life, but it didn't seem to penetrate. To succeed in this socialistic environment you need to understand the difference between economic self interest and greed, and to distinguish between compassion and self-righteous pandering.
watch the interview
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Hamster Burial Kits & 998 Other Business Ideas
Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution.
Need proof? For Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program, this week the nine of us came up with 111 business ideas each. But ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen.
What follows are our 999 business ideas, free for the taking.
see the list
Need proof? For Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program, this week the nine of us came up with 111 business ideas each. But ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen.
What follows are our 999 business ideas, free for the taking.
see the list
An American dream story about the girl next door
BROOMALL -- Pay attention. One day this story will be legend.
Jen Groover's purse annoyed her. With stuff laying on top of stuff, nothing could be seen. In a fit of pique, as they say, she yanked the dish rack out of her dishwasher and shoved it in her bag. There was all her stuff, standing in plain view, in neat little compartments.
Of such moments is entrepreneurial history made.
read her story
Jen Groover's purse annoyed her. With stuff laying on top of stuff, nothing could be seen. In a fit of pique, as they say, she yanked the dish rack out of her dishwasher and shoved it in her bag. There was all her stuff, standing in plain view, in neat little compartments.
Of such moments is entrepreneurial history made.
read her story
Monday, February 16, 2009
Scooper's business is picking up
This is the story about a man in Virginia Beach who created a poop scooping business. He's not the only one in the country or even his own town doing this type of job. But he's making decent money. In fact, it makes such good money he plans to eventually do this work full time. If he can make a living doing this just imagine the possibilities out there for you, if you're willing to go out and grab them.
read the story here | Visit his official website
read the story here | Visit his official website
Rugged Individualism Speech, Herbert Hoover, 1928
This speech was delivered in New York City by Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover on October 22, 1928, toward the close of the election campaign. In this classic example of American conservative philosophy, Hoover condemned the Democratic platform as a misguided attempt to solve the problems of prohibition, farm relief, and electrical power through state socialism; he extolled free, private enterprise and initiative, a system of "rugged individualism," as the foundations of America's "unparalleled greatness." Government entry into commercial business, he argued, would destroy political equality, increase corruption, stifle initiative, undermine the development of leadership, extinguish opportunity, and "dry up the spirit of liberty and progress."
read it here
read it here
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