You are the driving force regardless of where you fit in the value chain. First, by bringing useful products and services to market, turning investments into deliverables into profits, and then by giving back through taxes, charity, and consumption.

Profit drives progress by allowing capital savings to flow into innovation and growth, allowing the best ideas to emerge and the best investments to win. This cycle of risk and renewal is what makes the world a better place for everyone.

Thus, business ownership remains the best way to not only build wealth, whether direct ownership of a private company or via publicly traded stocks, but also to help advance the greater good.