I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
Know the business, learn the business, own something.
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.
I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.