Being a Righteous Entrepreneur: Define "The American Dream"

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Define "The American Dream"

I am curious how people in 2012 would define the term "The American Dream"! It would be awesome to have this defined by three groups....1> over 21 native-born; 2> under 21 native-born; 3> immigrant, or non-USA citizen.

Please share this in your social media connections. I welcome 500-1000 word essays on this topic from any of these categories to be emailed to skyline.assets@gmail.com. Entries will be published here, as we review them!

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Awesome insights....

“Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.” --Norman Vincent Peale
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit of entrepreneurship includes imagination, inventiveness and openness to the new. This spirit of creative response aligns with the capacity to exercise moral imagination and to see ethical problems in a new light. To be sure, our most fundamental ethical values -- values such as honesty, avoiding doing harm, keeping commitments -- are grounded in timeless traditions and are not likely to be soon abandoned. But it is in the application of these ethical values to emerging, unique situations, where moral imagination and the entrepreneurial spirit can make a decisive difference. ~David Schmidt
"Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Malachi 3:10
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been." - Dr. Robert Schuller
"Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice." Peter Drucker
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown
"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire." T. Boone Pickens
"There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear." David Mahoney
"I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not." Lucille Ball
"Eagles don't flock." Ross Perot
"Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that." Louis L'Amour To the Far Blue Mountains
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures." William Shakespeare

Book I've recently read

Agenda 21 - Beck/Parke
And the Righteous Shall Prosper - Knaphus
Arguing with Idiots/Beck
Blue Highways - Trogdon
Common Sense - Payne
Conscious Creator - Krohn
Cowards - Beck
Drawing on the Powers of Heaven - Harrison
Eat That Frog - Brian Tracy
Fish - Lundin/Paul/Christensen
Glenn Beck's Common Sense - Beck
Good To Great - Collins
Joseph Spider and the Fallacy Farm - Grant
Putting the One Minute Manager to Work - Blanchard/Lorber
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Kiyosaki
The Coming Aristocracy - DeMille
The E Myth Revisited - Gerber
The Fourth Turning - Strauss/Howe
The Jackrabbit Factor/Portal to Genius - Householder/Gunderson
The Magic of Thinking Big - Schwartz
The Medici Effect - Johansson
The One Minute Entrepreneur - Blanchard
The Richest Man in Babylon - Clason
The Spellbinder's Gift - Mandino
The World is Flat - Friedman
Think and Grow Rich - Hill
Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens - DeMille/Brooks
Travels with Charley - Steinbeck
When Fish Fly - Yokoyama

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Define "The American Dream"

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