Self-made multimillionaire financier Foster Friess, who played a major role in Sen. Rick Santorum’s campaign, told Red Alert Politics that the American dream is alive and well for today’s young Americans if they are willing to make the necessary sacrifices.
Friess says success requires the right value system.
“I’ve told all the people when I built my business that when you run into a wall, jump over it, and if they can’t do that run around the end of it,” Friess says. “If you can’t do that tunnel under it, and if you can’t do that knock it down.
“But there is a point in life where you just simply have to move in a different direction, and usually you are led to that by what you are led to do,” he continued. “Some windows will close, but God always opens up another window of opportunity and be open to that.”
Surveys suggest that a lot of young Americans are unwilling to take menial jobs because they think they are beneath them, but Friess says that young Americans need to suck it up.
Thinking that certain jobs are too lowly is a recipe for failure.
“If you have a college degree and you are trained as nuclear engineer don’t be reluctant to stock shelves at a grocery store,” Friess says. “All work has dignity even if it’s carrying bed pans in a nursing home.
“So start someplace, and it doesn’t matter how low of a rung you start if you are flipping burgers at Burger King or McDonald’s, aspire to be the manager, and if you are a manager aspire to have your own chain of Russell’s Twinkies.”
Friess says the secret of success is having faith in your abilities and being persistent.
“Never compare yourself to anybody else lest you become vain or bitter, so do your absolute best and work hard,” Friess says.
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