Cash was king.

Richard Blank

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00:00I assume, and help us, we're wrong. So did you completely avoid debt, never took out a penny in your

00:05name? Did you just minimize it? Did you bootstrap it and take on the buying all the used and pay

00:12as you go? Or was there a point where you said, hey, okay, now I have to take out some

00:17debt, but I'm going to take out a loan and minimize it? And what kind of flexibility did that give

00:22you as you took that approach?

00:24It wouldn't have made any difference at all if I took out loans for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I

00:29was still pacing in the amount of clients I was getting. I could have advertised more. What difference would it

00:35have made? My main thing is to me is natural growth. And so maybe it was just my old school

00:42Eastern European philosophy that was taught to me by my family. But if you can't pay for it in cash,

00:47you just don't do it.

00:49And I think it's very funny when you see repossessions of cars and people that lose their homes. And I

00:57think it's wonderful that they have dreams and they put money down and pay monthly. But once again, it's not

01:03stable. I would rather own the dirt underneath my feet than a building that could be taken away from me.

01:09I'm crazy like that, I guess. I acted my wage. I never overextended myself.

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