ONWARD and UPWARD:: Lessons Learned from Business Life

Why I Wrote This Book. I lost an eye at age 2.For most of my life, I thought that made me different. Less than. Someone who had to try harder to be seen as normal.It took me almost 60 years to understand that being different was never my weakness. It was my advantage.Being different taught me to watch more carefully when I only had one eye to watch with.It taught me to listen when other people talked.It taught me to work harder when other people took shortcuts.I didn't write this book because I built 11 businesses.I didn't write it because I went from a $20 accounting program called Cashbook Plus to owning a building in Penrose with COMACC on the wall.I didn't write it because I now live on the Gold Coast. I wrote it because for years, people kept asking me: How did you do it?And the answer was never about payroll. It was never about software or property or apartments near the airport.It was about being the kid with one eye who decided to keep going forward anyway