Tag: Defending The Dream

Building a business and creating wealth for so many.

AFP Michigan's Scott Hagerstrom wrote Saturday:

"Freedom, Family, Hope and Reward--these are the founding principles that are carved in stone in front of the Amway Headquarters in Ada, Michigan--and Rich lives them each day through his organization.

But his incredible business success is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his decades of exemplary service to our nation.

As is best when one finds success, Rich shares it with his community. With his wife, he founded the Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation, which provides grants to a myriad of excellent freedom-oriented groups like Michigan's The Mackinac Center. He works tirelessly on behalf of the National Organization on Disability. And of course, he lends his efforts to AFP Foundation.

In accepting his award this afternoon, Rich had some pithy advice for the crowd: "Do you want to get anywhere? Do something. Try something. You can never go wrong if you never do anything; but you can do it."

I think, no more than ever in this country, we need to hear those words and take them to heart."

Non stop laughter was a great way to wrap up the Defending The Dream Summit, and "the five's" Greg Gutfeld amidst his wisdom and candor, kept many of us in tears non stop.

AFP State operations Teresa Oelke introduces Greg first.  Enjoy.

I was fortunate to be present for this speech and another I will post later at the Defending the Dream Summit in Orlando.  Bill Whittle starts and ends his speech with pop culture, and all that lays between is brilliant and insightful.