Friday, February 12, 2010

Small Business Mentality


Sure, I'd love to sit at an office desk, take meetings, and chill all day. Would love to stay at 80,000 ft, talk in macro ideas & concepts, and then assign people to plans and see what brainchilds are born. I can imagine the CEO of LiveNation now... a decision a day, mixed in with meetings. But when you have a small business, you play everything. Tonight for example, I will spend my Friday night at Saint Rocke filming ALO (which is a killer band by the way), then go to UCC make sure everything is smooth. And by the way, right now Im updating the blog (fun part) so that I can finish the email newlsetter we send out weekly (not fun part). But you know what - thats what small business is I guess - its the sweat, blue-collar work, that in the end you look back at and can appreciate, if you make it. So tell Obama and his crew to give us a break. Tell the CA labor board, and the workers comp union, and all the other people with their hands out, to chill. It's hard enough just making a business work in simple terms of supply and demand. Let us small business people do our thing, and in return, if small businesses survive and thrive, even though we scrape our knuckles doing it, maybe our country will survive too. (wow, was i just doting politically?) aj.s

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Waxing politically against Obama...not easy to do in L.A. Hope the politicians (and voters) make it easier for you to run a strong business.

Allen Sanford said...

Ask the small biz man about Obama...we are having a hard time without all the extra costs being saddled on us. Im not political, but Im pretty sure small business is what got the USA to where it is, and by hindering us, we're hindering recovery. just my take...im subjective. ha!