Free Enterprise Strives To Work, And Win, All The Time

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.  You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.  Winning is a habit.  Unfortunately, so it losing.  There is no room for second place.  It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.  I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

Vincent Thomas Lombardi (1913-1970)

What could possibly be more American than trying to win all the time?
What could possibly be more American than trying to be first place?
What could possibly be more American than working so hard in a good cause and, in the end, finding oneself victorious and exhausted on the field of battle?

What could possibly be more representative of free enterprise than those three thoughts? 
What could possibly be more representative of free enterprise than an economic setting that encourages those three thoughts?
What could possibly be more representative of  free enterprise than people with the Lombardi mindset thriving in the marketplace?

And what could possibly be more representative of AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE than this further Lombardi quote:  “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

There is a reason the football Super Bowl trophy is called The Lombardi Trophy.

The Founding Fathers envisioned a country that ennobled the Lombardi ideals, created a political and an economic environment that encourages it, and drew up a political plan and a document that preserved those God-given freedoms, ideals, and rights.  And they pulled it off.

No society ever prospered that strove instead for ever-growing and intrusive gubment.
No society ever prospered that strove instead for ever-growing regulation, taxation and gubment control.
No society ever prospered that strove instead for ever-growing entitlements and gimmes.

No society striving for those less-than-ideal environments ever found its populace working with Lombardi "zeal," ever found its "finest hour," or ever found fulfillment of all it "holds dear." 

Indeed, no society striving for those less-than-ideal environments ever found itself "exhausted on the battlefield - victorious."


Instead, those societies have found themselves on the trash heap of history.

BECAUSE THOSE SOCIETIES DIDN'T WORK.  THEY CHOSE LOSING HABITS.

FREE ENTERPRISE STRIVES INSTEAD TO WORK,

AND WIN,

ALL THE TIME.