Steven Pope

I went down to Target, went to the clearance section, bought some toys, and started reselling it on Amazon.

I didn't make much.

I did, but I didn't make much.

It wasn't necessarily worth the time per se.

I can make $500 in a 30-minute coaching session with somebody.

I can't make $500 doing reselling trips in a day going out to clearance zones.

So I've made a lot of big business mistakes.

I dropped $2.6 million on a software.

I called it hybrid.

I was trying to recreate Asana project management software, CRM, like a HubSpot, as well as a Helium 10 and a PPC automation software, keyword tracker, and more.

Never saw the light of day.

Didn't even sell what I made to somebody else to try and pick up the pieces.

That's how bad it went.

So I've made a lot of big business mistakes.

I have hired some good people and I've hired some bad people.

And there is there is guessing in hiring.

There is knowing in firing.

That's another Gary V quote.

He's got a lot of couple of good ones on that kind of stuff.

One of the other Gary V quotes I like is the action dictates the strategy.