i think ive figured out a pretty big difference between me and a millionaire buddy who likes to talk business with me when he comes thru the store..... its not work, i probably work harder, i dont think its brains,,, ...
the thing that has sunk in from him is;;;i think i would work a lot harder for a lot less than he would..... he draws the line at a lot higher profit point than i do.....he would laugh at the work i do for the profit i sometimes get.... when he picks a project he would not even consider a lot of the projects that make my business money...and he will take a lot of risk....of course he has a more money to fall back on...and a great record of risking right.....
he is in a very flexible position...alone and used to big real estate deals and building businesses and selling them.... he finds all kinds of possibilities in his realm of interest....junk yards and real estate....
he makes fun of me for owning a valuable highway property and not using it ....he would use it ...somehow....but i cant see how.... to him things are always possible.....he rolls his eyes at me because we have never solved it.....
hes a real charmer...
we own the property and it would be a great place, a much better place for our store....but we have our store already and to replace it on the highway would cost 2 or 300k...so i cant get my head around it at all... also the highway is going to be closed off sometime in the near or far future...the gov wont say when...
anyway knowing him and thinking about this a lot...when i make decisions i try to
realize that our efforts are finite and are we doing the best with them? or are we wasting time on something below what we should be doing....i thnk about him and try to raise the bar on what i work on...
but im big and bulky, with people, hours, consensus..... and he is fast and wiley...
and im in retail in a depressed area...dang!!! and i dont want to change that...
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