Hey Go-Getters!  You know I hear from a lot of you out there that are courageous enough to start your own business and/or jump out there with a new invention.  Man, I wish I could convey how honored I am to be associated with people who act on their dreams in spite of criticism and fear of the unknown!  I was reading through a great book recently called ‘The Next Millionaires’ by Paul Zane Pilzer and he listed some common economic myths floating through the media these days.  Here are his thoughts on the internet;

MYTH The Internet boom has come and gone—if there ever really was one.  Or was it all smoke and mirrors?  Wasn’t that the story with all those dot-com initial public offerings (IPO’s) in the late ‘90’s: big expectations, but no real earnings?  Looks like maybe the Internet was not all it was cracked up to be.

REALITY:  The Internet represents one of the greatest economic revolutions in history-and it’s just getting started.

            Just as the automobile grew to change the face of modern society, over the coming decade the Internet will spread well beyond its current definitions and applications and begin to permeate every aspect of our lives.  The impact of the Internet, which is even now only in it’s infancy, can only be compared to the invention of writing, which created the birth of civilization, and the printing press, which created industrialization.

YES! I LOVE the internet!

I love what he goes on to say later…”The twenty-first century we have just begun will be known as the Age of the Entrepreneur.  It will be a time when Americans and others from many of the world’s capitalist economies will return to their roots of individual family-owned businesses.  With this return will come not only enormous personal wealth for those who get there, but also the affirmation and strengthening of moral and family values, as well as personal and societal freedoms that come with owning your own business and controlling your own destiny.”

Take care,

Tim Schmidt