“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse pulling a sturdy wagon.”
– Sir Winston Churchill, as quote in the book, “Ronald Reagan; The Notes”
One of the senior leaders on my team gave me the book as a Christmas gift. It’s pretty danged cool. (Thanks, Ed!)
Reagan carried 4″ x 6″ note cards with him, and captured the most compelling sights, sounds, sayings and wisdom he encountered, for sharing at a later time in the right context. “The Great Communicator” was not an accidental moniker.
And, at a time of year that the DD will contemplate Faith in its next couple postings, “commerce” seemed an ok variance, even during this celebratory time of year.
Because we ought to celebrate free enterprise.
More importantly, though, and as two of the greatest leaders of all time remind us above, it’s not prey and it’s not bounty. It’s a precious asset, an advantage that must be nurtured, cared for, fed, sheltered and exercised — EXERCISED — in order to gain maximum benefit from it.
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