We open 2009 with greater challenges than our country has arguably ever faced. Many Americans are and will be presented with circumstances they not have faced in the past. I firmly believe that adversity brings opportunity for those who have the courage to grasp it. The founders of this Democracy must have had Entrepreneurship firmly in their minds as a core of our society and our economy that would insure the United States would prosper in the long term and weather difficult times. We now find ourselves in an era where greed, lack of leadership and absence of oversight bring us to where we are. My partner Patti Choby likes to say, “real change happens locally”, and she is right. Grass roots entrepreneurship, quality education, innovation, integrity and just plan hard work will ultimately have a greater and longer lasting impact in remaking our economy and reshaping our future than billions of bail outs designed for short term results with long term consequences unknown.
Tags: democracy, economy, entrepreneurship, leadership
