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Originally Posted by Gill Catton  well I do think he's great and I love the program but his enthusiasm does overwhelm his business sense from time to time, he often seems to be rushing off into a new venture without making sure the older ones are resulting in a reliable profit... |
Yes but thats what i explained..yes he is exciteable and his ideas just keep flowing...Cales was talking about this on the last episode and explained ...she has been very careful to not try and halt his ideas as it would be wrong to put a cap on it as 98% of his so called crazy ideas ( Nature trail, Guinea pig island etc) have been total money spinners....and she admitted the odd one or two ideas dont work or get off the ground...
She is the sensible one though ,and through all 3 series has always kept him in check...made sure the bills and accounts are paid before he flies off on another venture etc...and is already saying the christmas meat idea must not happen next year..
Look i have been in business too ...many....and there are two ways of doing it...stay small and grow slow...and then get jealous of people doing the same business but who are large and doing well...or take risks...grow..expand..and live on the edge and eventually by about year 4-5 you will start breaking even and eventually making a lot of money which is exactly where jimmy is at now.
And if you are going to knock someone for being young and knowing nothing about the industry they are setting themselves up in....then half of the most succesful businesses in the world wouldnt exist now. My family had THE most succesful swimming pool and jaccuzzi company in kent for nearly 20 years and we knew NOTHING about building pools when we opened. And Hugh F W knew nothing about keeping chickens or livestock when he took on River Cottage and its now a small empire.