Somewhere,  somehow, people in our government and in our society have gotten the idea that profit is somehow wrong.  They would tell you that those who make a profit are “in it only for the money.”

I’d like to remind everyone of a few things.  Every great invention, every meaningful, rewarding job was created by someone who created the thing or the business with the expectation of “making money.”  Isn’t that the American dream, after all?  You can come here to the land of opportunity with nothing but the clothes on your back and you can become all that you’re willing to become.  How did that go from being the American dream to somehow being evil?  I must have been absent when they taught that in business school.

It’s profit that makes the world go around.  Without profit there’s no employer-subsidized health care insurance.  Without profit, there’s no Christmas party, no Christmas bonus, no retirement contribution, no nothing.  Without profit there’s no business.  And that means no jobs.  So without profit you not only have no way of covering your nut, you have nothing at all.

Next time you feel inclined to vilify your boss for “making so much money,” be sure you keep in mind that this is America.  You’re free to leave at any time, start your own enterprise and kick his behind.  You don’t have to put up with being a “lackey”  – being under your boss’s thumb.  You can go start your own business and be the person “making all the money,” anytime you want.  What are you waiting for?  Life’s too short to work for someone else who’s getting rich off your labors.  Why aren’t you out there doing it for yourself?

If you’re afraid to live the dream, and make something of yourself, please stop tearing down those who aren’t afraid.  I know literally hundreds of business owners.  The vast majority had no special favors when they started their businesses.  They went out on a shoestring and a prayer and by their sheer determination and hard work (and a level of risk that few of the rest of us can understand) they made it happen.  If they’re making money right now, I’d say they have it coming.

The bottom line is this:  take away profit from any business and you take away the reason to work, to risk, to innovate, to compete, to create jobs, to expand and grow, to be part of the community, to move forward.  If all you’re doing is working to pay taxes so those who don’t want to work don’t have to, I’d say you’ve pretty much sapped whatever drive or focus might have been there to begin with.  Why would you risk everything and work 16 hour days hundreds of days in a row just to pay taxes?  You wouldn’t.  And neither would I.

If you really believe that there should be a cap on salaries, on profit and on what can be achieved in business in America, you’re part of that group who is determined to see the end of the American dream.  For me, I still dream the dream.  I still believe in freedom — all of our freedoms — and I will go to my grave believing that what made America what it is today is the free market system and the American dream.

Don’t let them kill the dream, either by joining with them in their leftist ideas or though your unwillingness to stand up and do something. It’s time to get out of the lazy boy and remind everyone you know that what made America great is a great free market, where things are naturally regulated by the market.  Where nobody is too big to fail.  Where we don’t  take from those who would work and give it to those who wouldn’t.  Stand up today!  We are about to give up so much in return for so little.  Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?

Source: Tecoris Management Group