¶ Individual Economic Initiative
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Individual Economic Initiative:
"I was interested in what the individual could do on behalf of his fellow man … even in a very few years.
"Starting without any money, without any credit, what can the little individual do that the great corporations and great organizations and great states can’t do? … And so I really felt that there were things that the individual could do, he really could take initiatives like that. And he could work on something that would not be needed for 50 years-- and no corporation would do that and no state would do that. And so I saw a great many things that were needed, exactly the ones that would be needed in 50 years and we’d really be in trouble if we didn’t do it. And luckily it’s almost 50 years ago that I started doing it. The reason that I’m really here with you is that the things I really did undertake nobody else has undertaken to do. I’m really coming into phase now because they were so far out from what were considered logical and practical and worth budgeting.
“So the strategy I was employing, and the tiny little capital you and I have, which is just our experience. Self-experience. Beautiful equipment and how it can be really be turned to the powerful advantage of the many.”
¶ Citations
- RBF lecture at Wistar Inst. EJA transcript p.9, 19 Feb’73
