Originally Posted by
sabang
Originally Posted by
Boon Mee
"if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own"
Obama is a success himself, and is echoing the statements and sentiments of every other succesful man I have encountered.
Business leaders in particular go out of their way to emphasize the shared nature of success, and the fact that it is not achieved alone.
You would do good to read "History of the American People" by Paul Johnson.
In one of a thousand vignettes, Johnson tells the story of the founding of Springfield:Elijah Miles, who moved to the Sangamon River country in 1823, left a record of how he founded Springfield. It was then only a stake in the ground. He marked out an 18-foot-square site for a store, went to St. Louis to buy a 25-ton stock of goods, chartered a boat, shipped his stock to the mouth of the Sangamon, and then had his boat and goods towed upriver by five men with a 300 foot tow-rope. Leaving his goods on the riverside — “As no one lived near, I had no fear of thieves” — he walked 50 miles to Springfield, hired waggons and teams, and so got his stuff to the new “town,”where his store was the first to open. It was the only one in a district later divided into fourteen counties, so “many had to come more than 80 miles to trade. Springfield grew up around him.
Obama can try telling Americans they can’t build businesses, careers, communities and lives without his broke and broken Federal Government, but history and common sense prove him wrong every time. Ask Steve Jobs, Larry Elison, Sir Richard Branson etc.
Amazon.com: history of the american people: Books