I'm pretty conservative.
Most people try to grow too big, too fast.
One thing our dad always said was 'You need a better mouse trap. Business is in my blood. So when Gardner started working part-time in a tanning salon in 1985, her motivations rapidly changed from hoping to get a few hours out of the house to figuring out how to do a better job. With personal savings she bought a small, three-bed tanning salon and then worked for a year before taking a salary. Over the next 16 years, she reinvested cash flow.