Tag: PRO Reflections
Make your own luck
Rumors of America’s death have been greatly exaggerated. The proverbial lucky fool—these United States of America—has proven itself replete with those things that truly...
Making it to morning
“Tell us about the American miracle,” someone yelled breaking the crowd’s silence. It was 1981. The event was an international economic summit in Canada, and...
Beauty will save the world
It is said that beauty preserves the human essence. Through time and modernity, styles will change but human nature, the truth at man’s core—remains...
The creators
“Beauty is the promise of happiness,” wrote 19th Century French writer Stendhal. Beauty “exalts the mind or spirit,” according to Merriam-Webster and “truth, beauty...
An inside job
Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness. —Helen Keller There’s a...
The most important thing
Capitalism, wrote Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley in their book, Superabundance, succeeds not only because it is efficient but because it correctly...
AI that actually works for multi-dwelling operations
Like many, you probably have tech at home. As an early adopter, I’m acutely aware that it’s more a hobby than a tried and...
The makers
For the lion’s share of entrepreneurs, business owners and other captains of their own fate, American freedom is an immutable part of our DNA....
The most valued asset
The 2021 movie Old by M. Night Shyamalan is based on the French-Swiss graphic novel, Sandcastle, by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters. Its main...
Sweet liberty
The U.S. republic is a great wonder of the world. Many believe divinely inspired. Even today the vast majority of its citizens continue to...
Birth of a builder
Christmas makes me think of builders. It celebrates, among other supernatural events, the birth of a carpenter who apprenticed in the family business. Once...
The case for optimism
Clarity of purpose guides the path forward in every time and every place. Whether in life, business or country, we will be neither the...
A great deal of ruin in a nation
Asked if the loss of the American colonies would mean ruin for Britain, Adam Smith replied, “There is a great deal of ruin in...
Only dead fish swim with the current
It’s a glorious day in the rental business. I would say apartments, but the industry has been transitioning—again—to include single-family rentals (Demand drives pricing...
Facts don’t care
I was raised in a multi-generational family business. There I learned classic principles of market economics long before I learned what it was called....
