The Question:
How do you feel today about your decision to be a small business owner?
How do you feel today about your decision to be a small business owner?66% - I’ve never regretted my decision to be a small business owner.
13% - Things started off rocky, but I’m now happy with my decision.
21% - It seems my best days as a small business owner are behind me.
0% - I wish I had never done this. What was I thinking?
Jim’s Comments:
As you know, in the intervening years since the financial meltdown of 2008, we’ve gone from where survival was seen as success to weathering a long and laborious recovery to maybe, just maybe, starting to get some expansion traction. Any small business owner who’s come through all of that and still in business is the marketplace equivalent of a combat veteran.
As you know, in the intervening years since the financial meltdown of 2008, we’ve gone from where survival was seen as success to weathering a long and laborious recovery to maybe, just maybe, starting to get some expansion traction. Any small business owner who’s come through all of that and still in business is the marketplace equivalent of a combat veteran.
As I’ve said many times, small business owners are pathological optimists, operating all in, against all odds, often feeling very much alone, and all for the possibility of just making a living. So after all we’ve been through, and with assorted headwinds still in our face, it’s great to see almost eight of ten of you are happy to be running a small business.
Goodonya, my friends. Keep up the good work because the world depends on you.
