Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
In business, experience is the big teacher.
School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.