There was a quote in The E-Myth Revisited that stood out to me this week. Page 65:

“A Mature company is started differently than all the rest. A Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.”

The biggest draw, at least to me, to own my own business is so that I can have others do the work for me. I don’t want to be the Technician. I want to be the Manager and the Entrepreneur. I want someone else to be the Technician. At some point, I would like to not be the Manager either. I want to be able to do the types of things Jim Ritchie talks about in his Leaders videos. It would be a dream come true to have someone else running my business while I was able to go out and serve others.

That’s what I truly want to do – I want to serve others. I need to have an income in order to be able to support myself while I do that. What better way to have an income that to own your own successful business that someone else is running for you?