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Favorite Scriptures, Poems, & Quotes
But your final reward will be heartaches
and tears if you've cheated the guy
in the glass.
An entrepreneur extraordinaire, this was
also a favorite of Del Belden --
THE
ENTREPRENEUR'S CREDO
by
Dean Alfange:
I do not choose to be
a
common man.
It is my right to be uncommon, if I
can.
I seek opportunity, not security.
I do not wish to be
a
kept citizen,
humbled and dulled by having the
state look after me.
I
w~nt
to take the calculated risk; to
dream and to build, to fail and to
succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for
a
dole; I
prefer the challenges of life to the
guaranteed existence; the thrill of
fulfillment to the state calm of
Utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence
nor my dignity for
a
handout.
I will never cower before any master nor
bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect, proud
and unafraid;
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