If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.
And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.
I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.
I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.
I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.