I started my business when l was 21 with nothing. When l was 19 l left a small village to move to the city 40 miles away, in an old car belonging to my mother which broke down which l lived in, in the winter in England for 3 weeks, with 5 pounds in my pocket for food and used that weeks salary to pay for food for the next 2 weeks before finding a cheap room to live in.

I started my business when l was 21 with nothing. When l was 19 l left a small village to move to the city 40 miles away, in an old car belonging to my mother which broke down which l lived in, in the winter in England for 3 weeks, with 5 pounds in my pocket for food and used that weeks salary to pay for food for the next 2 weeks before finding a cheap room to live in.

l went through this because my vision of being a photographer in a big city and have my own print machine exceeded the pain of the frozen car and no-where to go.

Everyone told me it wouldn't work and to keep the job l took, but l had that business for 28 years.
l spent the first 14 years in the UK and then moved to New Zealand for 4 years with my family, picked up where l left off, then return to the UK and continues to take pictures until l was 50.

Technology changed the game so l traded the markets and eventually this lead to my get involved in Acquisitions, which lead to another company that wanted help buying businesses but l left to work alone after seeing the biggest problem owners had, and that was trying to sell with no systems in place.

75% of businesses on the market don't sell, the ones that do sell that is a much higher % of failure rates. The ones with the lowest failure rate are employee owned businesses at 0.4% failure rate, which is why banks and family offices like to invest in them.

I have 2 son's in the UK and l live in the US.