Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality. Oliver DeMille More Quotes by Oliver DeMille More Quotes From Oliver DeMille Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference. Oliver DeMille wise opportunity thinking Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives. Oliver DeMille creating-value real mean In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything. Oliver DeMille government home long It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom. Oliver DeMille wall talking giving When we let our freedoms slip away without a fight or even without concern, we take freedom, prosperity and happiness away from our posterity. What kind of people do that? Are we such people? These are questions each of us must face. Oliver DeMille fighting faces people The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying. Oliver DeMille making-a-difference differences america Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness. Oliver DeMille decay pursuit-of-happiness numbers The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books. Oliver DeMille distance citizens book Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education. Oliver DeMille educational goal reality Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs. Oliver DeMille choices self teacher If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not have as their motive either to see us out of debt to them or to strengthen our economy, society, international influence, or other elements of our way of life. Oliver DeMille frustrated frustration running The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment. Oliver DeMille unemployment government overcoming Government intervention is not solving the problems, and in fact the governments around the world that are intervening the most in their economies are struggling more. Oliver DeMille government struggle world Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt. Oliver DeMille political leader class Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so. Oliver DeMille political leader mean We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly. Oliver DeMille documents policy deals Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around. Oliver DeMille fighting people years The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life. Oliver DeMille lessons powerful real The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another Oliver DeMille myth educate humans The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring. Oliver DeMille communication reading art
