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The Three Horsemen: Discipline, Risk, Regret

Big Red Car — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:32:39 +0000

If you are pondering your future — who isn’t? — allow me to introduce the Three Horsemen: discipline, risk, regret. You will harness and ride some or all of them in your life and they are both your loyal friend and vicious enemy depending upon how you create the relationship. Discipline There is no success […]

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CEO Shoptalk — All Risk Is Not Created Equal

Big Red Car — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:55:04 +0000

If you are an entrepreneur, founder, CEO, you swim in a sea of risk, alternating amongst the butterfly, the backstroke, the breaststroke, and the crawl. You must do it all. In the early days, you are a minnow (or a little mullet if you are feeling salty) and the dangerous waters of startup land are […]

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Risk — A Four Letter Word, CEO Shoptalk

Big Red Car — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 15:52:33 +0000

Today, we talk RISK, y’all. It is a four letter word and it can be profane, if you let it. Big Red Car here on a sunny, Texas day which will give rise to a 103F temperature during which the BRC will be hanging in the pool, floating. OK, so today we talk about risk. […]

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Risk and the Slavery of Fear

Big Red Car — Sun, 07 May 2017 20:11:07 +0000

Big Red Car here, y’all, talking risk, fear, slavery and other deep stuff. So, entrepreneurial endeavor is a risky business by its very definition, no? When an entrepreneur faces risk, she will generate some resultant fear. Perfectly normal. Sorry. That fear is pervasive. Never takes a vacation and lives in her brain like an African […]

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Better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than being in the air and wishing you were on the ground

Big Red Car — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 04:27:48 +0000

Big Red Car here. So the other day The Boss and I head out to Georgetown, Texas to shoot a few “touch n goes” to keep the flying skills sharp. I listened to him and a buddy talk about flying and business and how they are related. You young entrepreneurs, listen up. Some good stuff […]

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