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Jack Miller:
You cannot live a balanced life and build a great business. I have never known a really successful businessperson who has lived a balanced life.

Jack Miller, author of the book Simply Success…

They all have worked ten, twelve hours or more a day building their business. You can certainly do less but you're not going to build great success at that. I can't imagine somebody going to Beethoven and saying, "You know you shouldn't practice so much, you shouldn't work so much and you should have a balanced life" - it doesn't seem to work that way.

Jack Miller built a very successful business supply business that he later sold to Staples for millions of dollars. He says in the process of building his business he missed out on lots of family events, but looks at it the way many business people do.

A bigger problem for me would have been to end my life realizing that I did not reach or even come close to my potential. And the only thing I could really talk about to my friends, or take some pride in was what my children were accomplishing, not what I accomplished. I think that would have been a worse problem for me than saying, "Hey, I spent a little bit too much time at my desk."

At somethingyoushouldknow.net - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.