Make Millions and Make Change! - Secrets to Business and Personal Success - By Mike Mann

You can’t be scared to be a capitalist in a capitalist society. It’s not wrong to profit or make money from your business peers and your community. Ultimately, within the flows of the economy, they, too, make it from you, your family, and your peers. Everyone deserves to make an honest buck. Profits create a virtuous cycle if you work with virtuous individuals during the process in a free and fair market economy.
This is the way American society and its market economy is fueled. No capitalism would mean no jobs, no nice cars, no rent money, etc. Capitalism is a key to a healthy democratic society. Moreover, in our case and throughout this book, we believe the end goal in creating wealth is ultimately to channel it towards social actions. Thus, there is no reason to avoid or fear capitalism. Just dig in!

Consider the stock market. Despite many market crashes in the last century, most long-term investors have profited handsomely. Likewise, if you are a committed entrepreneur and follow rational business practices day after day, you, too, will eventually succeed—even if the business environment occasionally appears to work against you or has radical fluctuations over time. There is no doubt that you will often feel like you are taking a step back, but given our mutual three steps forward approach, you will still end up considerably ahead.

We believe that if you have solid motivational drive, irrespective of your past, you could start at even an entry-level position and still make it to the top of your industry, given enough time. Make sure your boss’s plans for you are the same as your own, and make sure that you assertively earn, and explicitly ask for, your promotions along the way.
If you can’t be promoted at your current gig, you can keep looking for better employment until you find the most suitable match with someone who will give you the opportunities you deserve and are willing to earn. If you are well-studied and proactive, someone will recognize your work ethic and the results you could potentially achieve for their team. From there, you could be hired and on your way up the corporate ladder.
You could possibly keep moving up the ladder until your boss becomes your business partner or until you venture out on your own with your new skills, using your sweat equity and network of contacts to build a larger, more sustainable income.

Since a lot of trouble tends to come from the inside, in today’s business climate, it may be wiser to hire people as subcontractors for some time before considering them as employees.