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No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.
One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.
We want to create more jobs. We want to qualify more lenders and expand lending markets. But also, I want a very different SBA - it's not your father's SBA. I want to modernize it and reposition it so when people think about jobs, they think about how the Small Business Administration would really be helpful.