This is an accurate perspective, in my opinion, of the value of owning your own company.
He [William Johnson, CEO of Heinz] talked about the “qualitative, intangible skills” that leaders acquire from failures, citing New York Yankees’ manager Joe Torre, who was repeatedly fired before ever winning a World Series.
A commenter went on to say:
it’s what u do when you’re down in dumps that makes you a great leader. Treating a situation which all will consider a lost case as an opportunity, turning around what looks hopeless, that’s the key, and thats what makes one the CEO material.
Every time I am wrung through the washer of a business “situation” I always come out on the other side clean – I see the world better, stronger.