Monday, March 23, 2009

rick steves: make something!

famed backdoor travel guru & american dreamer rick steves discusses travel, economy, and global perspectives in a recent salon.com interview. this is one of many morsels of his snappy, inspiring clarity & poignant worldly wisdom:

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"A headline today said, "Americans lose 18 percent of their wealth." Well, no, it wasn't real wealth, it was a bubble. You're down 18 percent? You're not. It shouldn't have been up there in the first place. So get over it. Shut up. Go to work, produce stuff that has value. I really think the days are gone, I hope, when people can rearrange the furniture and get rich on it. You got to produce something."
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full interview: salon.com

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