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Quitters Never Win — Oh yeah?
The full quote, “Quitters never win and winners never quit,” is attributed to Vince Lombardi and it’s a good one that I don’t think falls into the category of dumb quotes, but, like most quotes, it doesn’t capture the full story.
I guess I’m saying this because I both quit and won.
I’ve already written why owning a business was both my biggest success and my biggest failure, now I want to look at the process that brought me to victory and the ability to quit. You see, I couldn’t quit when I really wanted to, that would have been failure.
The Dream
When I started the business, a massage and facial franchise, I had high expectations, that’s what optimistic people do, they envision the best outcome. I also tried to be realistic, tried to plan for the worst.
I made the overconfident decision to open this business while I continued working in my career of television news. My wife, who continued in her career, would also work on this business with me.
With the success we anticipated, we planned to open a second location at which point, I’d leave my job to run the growing business empire we envisioned.
