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"Your main reason for being in business isn't to provide jobs for other people. You're in business to provide a service to your customers and to make a profit doing it."
Just because Stone feels that way, doesn't mean it is so for everyone.
There are many different reasons to be self-employed and an infinite combination of personality traits that may be held by any given business owner.
I quit "corporate America" out of disgust for the greed or those "profit obsessed" managers who run it.
I enjoy the freedom of being self-employed, and am happy to pay my bills. I have yet to determine my "target profit".
I have a good employee and when we are slow, I will try to find ways to keep him "whole", even if it means helping around the house.
I believe that the "cream rises to the top" and that if you offer a quality job to customers at a fair (to both parties) price, that you will be less likely to be slow, and, in time, the profits will follow.
[This message has been edited by Redsy (edited 04-02-2006).]
