I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.
In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.
The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.
Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.
I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.