Very Short Interview No. 1

I was able to interview my boss who is and comes from a family of entrepreneurs.  They own a very successful Chevrolet dealership in Central Florida.  He currently runs the Service Department and has implemented multiple new ways to make the experience for the customers more enjoyable and more efficient.  Not all of the ideas are successful and that just he goes back to drawing board to find another way.
The first question I asked was what he wished he had been taught more in school that help him prepare for his career.  His answer was accounting.  He said that it is very hard to see what making your business more or less successful if you can't crunch the numbers.  He also said that the best way to learn everything else is on the job and trial by error.  The next question I asked was what he thinks I should learn in the course.  His answer wasn't so much a direct response as more of what to take away from other entrepreneurs that we will study about or reference.  That is to keep my drive alive and never be comfortable with where I am always strive for more.  Lastly, I asked him what it means to him to be an entrepreneur.  The first thing that jumped to his was being able to build something from nothing and how self-fulfilling that was and still is.
The interview was somewhat enlightening in that I got to see a different side of him.  Nothing really surprised me from his answers I could see how all of those things are important or why he answered that way.   I have known him and his family professionally for about 10 years now and they run one of the best family owned businesses I have ever seen.  They seem to believe in a philosophy that it is just as important to take care of the employees as it is the customers.  Nothing really surprises me about they do and I am privileged enough to be able to see how hard they work everyday to keep they're it top form and how they are always looking to improve it for both their employees and customers.