houses. instead of putting the paper into the mailbox, i’d deliver it to the door. i got great tips. when i was 13, a flower shop hired me to water the flowers. soon i was taking care of orders. by 16, i had learned a lot.
we opened a week before easter and earned about $50 a day. i stayed open until 7 p.m., seven days a week, because few other flower shops did. i thought $350 a week was wonderful. soon, sales doubled, and i was shocked. five years later, we had three shops and were making close to $1 million a year. i said we needed to make more, 