After an impressive string of successes, the company focus shifted away from meeting customer needs toward the internal goal of beating General Motors and maximizing growth.

FORBES: The Value Of An 'Outside-In' Strategy

This is all why there is nothing more important than maximizing economic growth.

FORBES: Economic Growth, Not Redistribution, Most Benefits The Poor, Working People, And The Middle Class

To the contrary, savers, like everyone else, have an interest in maximizing economic growth, since that will also maximize returns on their investments.

FORBES: Does Inflation Hurt Savers?

The safer path, and likely the growth-maximizing one, is to take this opportunity of robust growth to stabilize the dollar and get ahead of the inflation risk.

FORBES: Malpass to Bernanke: Hike! Hike! Hike!

If we are truly following growth maximizing policies, we could conceivably do even better than we have in the past.

FORBES: Economic Growth, Not Income Redistribution, Is What Helps Us All

Listening to my customers, I subsequently launched Stratus Careers to mentor professional job seekers and corporate executives through finding and then excelling in fulfilling positions while maximizing their potential for growth.

FORBES: Step 2 for a Successful Startup: Identify, Utilize, and Develop your Talents or Skills

As a result, they are able to focus on maximizing the generation of wealth and the growth of a portfolio, and worry less about how they achieve it.

FORBES: Investing For The Long Term In Uncertain Times

Moral: You have to decide up front what you actually want to achieve with your money--and that means managing, protecting and maximizing your future earning power much more than just fiddling with growth stocks or exotic tax shelters.

FORBES: Watch Your Assets