This is part 2 of a 4-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here There are three groups with long-term independence whose members are permanently free from dependence on a paycheck. The first two are made up of people supported by trust funds or equivalent, covered financially for life by wealth earned or passed … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Guest
March 14, 2010 by 2 Comments
Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. It Couldn't Be Done Edgar Guest Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But, he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn’t," but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he … [Read more...]
Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 5: Specific Entrepreneurial Challenges
March 13, 2010 by 1 Comment
Click Here to Download a Printable Version of this Article This is part 5 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here Let’s get specific. Either a generation of entrepreneurs will arise or the "Patio Man" lifestyle will end. Very soon, the following must occur: Entrepreneurs must figure … [Read more...]
Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 2: Major Challenges
March 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide This is part 2 of a 5-part article. Read Part 1 Here Consider the major problems we are facing. Most are the natural results of too much reliance on institutional size and power and not enough initiative, innovation, and leadership from “little guys.” Of course, the few who are … [Read more...]
Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 1: Failed Solutions
March 9, 2010 by 1 Comment
Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide This is part 1 of a 5-part article. When America decided to follow Alexander Hamilton’s economic model instead of the Jeffersonian system, a number of changes occurred which now haunt our generation. Jefferson envisioned a nation of small farm and shop owners that spread around … [Read more...]
Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 4
March 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Click Here to Download a PDF of This Article This is part 4 of a 4-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here The Growing Popularity of Producer Education Consider what leading thinkers on the needs of American education and business are saying. In Revolutionary Wealth, renowned futurist Alvin Toffler says that … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: Disturb Us, Lord by Sir Francis Drake
February 28, 2010 by 5 Comments
View the Sunday Poem archives here. Disturb Us, Lord Sir Francis Drake Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, When we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess We have … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: Doing is Being by Ray Bradbury
February 21, 2010 by 7 Comments
Explore the "Sunday Poems" archive here. Doing is Being Ray Bradbury Doing is being. To have done's not enough. To stuff yourself with doing -- that's the game. To name yourself each hour by what's done, To tabulate your time at sunset's gun And find yourself in acts You could not know before the facts You wooed from secret self, which … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
February 14, 2010 by 3 Comments
Explore the "Sunday Poem" archives here. The Road Not Taken Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because … [Read more...]
Sunday Poem: Throw Yourself Like Seed by Miguel de Unamuno
February 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Explore the "Sunday Poem" archives here. Throw Yourself Like a Seed Miguel de Unamuno Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant. Now you are only giving food to that final … [Read more...]
