Make your own rules

Though this is the true rule to success there is a very big caveat which is: You had better be educated enough to actually succeed at this before you try it. If you aren't educated or experienced enough you are simply going to wind up in jail or dead.

When I look at adults mentally and physically fit there are only two types of these. One group needs a lot of rules like being in a box the rest of their lives to feel secure. And the first group are people who do well in the military and in corporations. And then there is another group (that often become millionaires or more) that do much better if they are allowed to make their own rules. I once saw TV movie called "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" which was mostly about people like Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, of Apple Computer, and the Bill Gates, one of the founders of Microsoft. But if you look at the title it sort of says it all. They changed the world completely and this could only have been done in the United States like this because of the way things still were in the 1980s.

But since then Congresspeople both in States and in the Federal Government and lawyers in general have been very busy(after all they all do have to make a living somehow). However, the result has not been good for the average U.S. Citizen because all these representatives and lawyers have sort of been like beavers and damed up all the free rivers in the U.S. of opportunity. So, probably what I would say if you want opportunity again for people to actually make money the way people used to through opportunity in the U.S., the rivers of commerce somehow have to be running free again. Otherwise, the U.S. will very quickly (like it is now) become completely irrelevant on the world stage.