Entrepreneurs Don"t Wait For The Government
Occupy Wall Street Needs To Get Some Business Sense As I watch the small but steadily growing movement, I'm worried by a few of the things they are saying and their actions.
While I personally agree with one of their views concerning bank bailouts.
I find the demand for government aide to help them locate a job and assist them with their expenses to be incredibly problematic.
If you follow my blog you know that I do several profiles on entrepreneurs from the 20th century.
People like Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie.
What almost all of them have in common was the fact that they started out extremely poor.
There were no government programs to assist them and nobody to pay for their educations.
They had to work for all of it.
What I find sad about the occupy wall street crowd, isn't that they want the governments help, but that they don't have the confidence or willingness to make use of their own brains, determination and skills to succeed in life.
You've got to ask yourself, where, as a culture have we gone wrong when people no longer have enough confidence in themselves to be willing to start a business, go out on their own and take a risk.
Occupy Wall Street Ought to Put Time & Energy Into Themselves The one thing I have to give the Occupy Wall Street crowd credit for, is their tenacity.
They are willing to put up with lousy weather, a limited food supply plus a lack of a sanitary environment to make a point.
So they have proved they can stay focused and drive to achieve something.
But what is unfortunate is that they're taking all this energy and putting it into trying to force the government to do something for them, rather than doing it for themselves.
Can you imagine Henry Ford spending that amount of time standing around in the rain anticipating the US Congress and the President to take action on his behalf.
Not a chance, he was too busy building cars and improving the quality of his life, his workers lives along with the lives of his customers.
He was handsomely rewarded for that work as he should have been.
But Henry wasn't trying to find handouts.
He believed in self reliance and had the courage and conviction to take an idea and risk everything to prove it could work.
Thomas Edison, attempted to produce a light bulb more than 1,000 times before he got it right.
He never took a dime from the government to do it and never expected anything from anybody else that he wasn't willing to do himself.
Entrepreneurship Needs To Occupy Main Street So instead of burning up all of the hours attempting to compel the government to produce jobs, it's time to stand up and take action yourself.
The costs to start and run a company have never been lower then they are today.
Marketing with social media is almost free, many products can be developed for an incredibly small initial cost and tools to sell on line are very inexpensive.
So, I hope that the occupy wall street crowd, changes it's mind and decides to occupy main street with "open for business" shingles.
A new generation focused on building their own business's instead of searching for a job or a handout could have a profound effect on our economy and the future of our country.
While I personally agree with one of their views concerning bank bailouts.
I find the demand for government aide to help them locate a job and assist them with their expenses to be incredibly problematic.
If you follow my blog you know that I do several profiles on entrepreneurs from the 20th century.
People like Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie.
What almost all of them have in common was the fact that they started out extremely poor.
There were no government programs to assist them and nobody to pay for their educations.
They had to work for all of it.
What I find sad about the occupy wall street crowd, isn't that they want the governments help, but that they don't have the confidence or willingness to make use of their own brains, determination and skills to succeed in life.
You've got to ask yourself, where, as a culture have we gone wrong when people no longer have enough confidence in themselves to be willing to start a business, go out on their own and take a risk.
Occupy Wall Street Ought to Put Time & Energy Into Themselves The one thing I have to give the Occupy Wall Street crowd credit for, is their tenacity.
They are willing to put up with lousy weather, a limited food supply plus a lack of a sanitary environment to make a point.
So they have proved they can stay focused and drive to achieve something.
But what is unfortunate is that they're taking all this energy and putting it into trying to force the government to do something for them, rather than doing it for themselves.
Can you imagine Henry Ford spending that amount of time standing around in the rain anticipating the US Congress and the President to take action on his behalf.
Not a chance, he was too busy building cars and improving the quality of his life, his workers lives along with the lives of his customers.
He was handsomely rewarded for that work as he should have been.
But Henry wasn't trying to find handouts.
He believed in self reliance and had the courage and conviction to take an idea and risk everything to prove it could work.
Thomas Edison, attempted to produce a light bulb more than 1,000 times before he got it right.
He never took a dime from the government to do it and never expected anything from anybody else that he wasn't willing to do himself.
Entrepreneurship Needs To Occupy Main Street So instead of burning up all of the hours attempting to compel the government to produce jobs, it's time to stand up and take action yourself.
The costs to start and run a company have never been lower then they are today.
Marketing with social media is almost free, many products can be developed for an incredibly small initial cost and tools to sell on line are very inexpensive.
So, I hope that the occupy wall street crowd, changes it's mind and decides to occupy main street with "open for business" shingles.
A new generation focused on building their own business's instead of searching for a job or a handout could have a profound effect on our economy and the future of our country.
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