The Capitalist Spirit: How Each and Every One of Us Can Make A Giant Difference in Our Fast-Changing World

321 Pages·2009·1.65 MB·English

by  Yale Hirsch

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THE CAPITALIST
SPIRIT
How Each and Every One of Us
Can Make a Giant Difference in
Our Fast-Changing World
YALE HIRSCH
Founder of Stock Trader’s Almanac
Foreword by W illiam J. O ’ Neil
Founder and Chairman , I nvestor ’s Business Daily
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Copyright © 2010 by Yale Hirsch. All rights reserved.
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Respectfully dedicated to America, sweet land of liberty and opportunity,
where an African American is now the President of the
United States of America.
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Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
—Emma Lazarus (1849–1887),
American poet, from
“The New Colossus” (1883), inscribed on
a bronze plaque inside the Statue of Liberty
So at last, I was going to America!
Really, really going at last!
The boundaries burst.
The arch of heaven soared.
A million suns shone out for every star.
The winds rushed in from outer space,
Roaring in my ears,
“America! America!”
—Mary Antin (1881–1949),
immigrant writer,
from “The Promised Land” (1912)
I have a love affair with America, because there are no built-in barriers to anyone
in America. I come from a country where there were barriers upon barriers.
—Michael Caine (b. 1933), British actor,
quoted in Parade magazine (2003)
America, brash and noble container of dreams, This muse to artists and inventors
and entrepreneurs, This beacon of optimism, this dynamo of energy, This trumpet
blare of liberty.
—Peter Jennings (1938–2005), anchor
ABC World News Tonight, a Canadian
gaining his U.S. citizenship in July 2003
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