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Jillian
“Business is involved with everything from hospitals to grocery stores. I’ve
worked with my friend who owns a boutique, and she manages inventory,
attracting customers and stuff like that. You have to move with the trends and
understand what people want. It’s about satisfying the customers. It’s important
to be a leader in business because you have to take initiative to figure out what
people want. You have to create value and purpose. You have to see what people
don’t have but what they want created or you have to make improvements to
things that help in the long run. Math is what helps me the most as a leader. It’s
weird but you have to understand how much profit you want to make, how many
expenses you have, how to invest and help your business grow. You might have
a huge business proposal, but you need money. If you’re running a hospital for
example, you need medicines and treatments to help people and that all costs
money. You have to know how to balance your money. I disagree with people
who think studying business is easy. The best business people and entrepreneurs
come from here. Anything has the potential to be hard, and business requires
a lot of work. Life is a big business! There are transactions all around us, and
there are people running all kinds of businesses. Everything needs order and
management. We need innovations and new ideas, and I feel like that comes
from the business world.”
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