The TV presenter shares her bugbears about small business owners and admits she wasn’t ambitious enough to launch her own hotel chainI come by irritated by people who don’t admit to me that they don’t understand their own figures. Women believe such number blindness. I’m generalising – men believe it too – but I meet a lot of women who say “I can’t understand it”. Take the bridal boutique from the first series of The Fixer [ Courtyard Bridalwear in Kettering , Northamptonshire]. That woman had been running her shop for years and didn’t understand her profit and loss sheet. But the business has gone from strength to strength since the present.
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Source: theguardian.com