Brad Sugars

They need chairs.

They need tables.

They need all of that boring stuff.

Well, someone's got to sell all that things.

And so a lot of the times, I think if you can learn to be a good business person, meaning you can learn sales structures and strategies, you can learn marketing structures and strategies, some finance, learn across the board.

I think school is your apprenticeship to a job, right?

But your job should be an apprenticeship to your own business.

Now, if you only have one apprenticeship, you can't go into business for yourself.

Or if you do, you're going to struggle.

Because to be in your own business, you've got to know sales.

You've got to know marketing.

You've got to know purchasing.

You've got to know recruiting and leading and managing.

Do you know what I mean?

You've got to be more of a generalist than a specialist.

You've got to be a good business owner.

A client of mine years ago, number one hairdresser in the country back in Australia, number one hairdresser in the country, but was trapped.

Had to cut hair all day, every day.

And I said to him, who's running your business?

He said, no one's running my business.