“You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.”

– Abraham Lincoln

The fuels of independence are passion and never settling down.  It is that state of mania which drives us.  It forces us to keep moving forward. It allows us to not only stay ahead of the game, but to define it.  The big guys may follow suit, but they cannot implement ideas with the same immediacy. We are faster, and more nimble.  We have our principles of business, we have our model, and we have our vision. But, nothing we do is written in stone. We adapt as necessary. We can borrow what works, dismiss what does not, and fill in the blanks from our own imaginations.

From a business perspective I can only pretend to understand what this equates to in dollars.  Few, if any, would argue that profit isn’t the most important byproduct of such a model. But, in a different region of the independent dreamscape lives a few other equally significant benefits.

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