Ron Shaich

I feel like it's a failure.

Is that a failure because I was committed to my business?

I don't know.

But I sometimes, I think about that.

The biggest fallacy of life is that you can have everything and that all there are are choices and that you want to make your choices with a clear head and your open eyes as to what you value, what you respect.

And then you want to build your life around that.

Just as I try to build a business around what it is we try to, a concept of essence and what we expect.

I try to build my life around what is it I'm going to respect.

And that's why I really try to think through on a regular basis what is it I need to do for my own self-respect in the context of my relationship with my body, my relationship with my family, and everything.

my spouse, my friends, my relationship with my work and what does it mean to do that well, and ultimately a relationship with my own spirituality and my own personal integrity.

You take all of that and you try to put that together and you try to build a life understanding

There is no balance.

You can't have it all.

You've got to, you make choices and their trade-offs and you try to do that as well as you can.

I just encourage your listeners to be clear what it is that they want and what it is that they're going to respect.

What you don't want to do is wake up one day and say, I wish I had and miss it.

How important do you think that focus was in your success?

I'm pretty focused.

And, you know, I work hard.

I always have.