If you have a business, you DID build that. Here’s why. Oh, and while I’m at it, I’ll also explain why you have something that you DID build even if you “work for someone else.”
Two words. Excellence. Integrity. Nobody GIVES those things. Nobody can take them away. And not everybody has them.
Teachers are wonderful people (for the most part). They labor under increasingly impossible circumstances to perform increasingly non-academic requirements under conditions that make it increasingly difficult to challenge our children to excel. But the best teacher in history has never and can never and will never grant those two things, excellence and integrity. Those are inside-outward qualities, they must come from the inside and flow outward.
Roads and bridges move goods and people. Commerce is dependent to a huge extent on movement of goods and people. Sitting here, I cannot come up with one business that does not at some level depend on goods and people going from where they start to where we need them to be. But even if you were to travel every road and cross every bridge in our nation, those roads and bridges would not lead you to integrity and excellence.
As fascinating as the internet is, there are some (albeit a few) businesses that could in fact operate without it. Just off the top of my head, lawncare comes to mind. Regardless of your operation’s need for network connectivity, or the lack of said need, it will not connect you to excellence and integrity.
You own your excellence. You own your integrity. You built them. Nobody gave them to you. Nobody can tax them. Nobody can take them away from you. As a business owner or as an employee, claim them and hold tight to them. They are rare, and you will need them every day of your life. And building them is a process, not an event.
BUILD IT!