I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I built a huge profitable business with no debt.
I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.
I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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.
I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.
Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.