When you focus attention on a struggling business, it improves dramatically. The speaker uses a teak business and mortgage operation as examples, showing how hard it is to solve problems in two places at once. Where attention goes, money flows.
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The second question you asked is, you know, how do you, how do you manage, right? How do you manage the 3 businesses? And where, where I found where, where you give the most attention, you make the most money. It's a super— I, I, I hate corny sayings, even though I also like Zig Ziglar, who was fantastic at corny sayings. Yes, he is. Where attention goes, money flows. And I've seen that to be true in every single business. If a business is struggling and all of a sudden everyone gives attention to it, it stops struggling and it makes more money than any other business. How do you manage that? Because if your focus is on, for example, let's say you're solving a problem with the teak business and your attention's there, it's really hard to be all your brainpower on teak and then also be like, wow, am I solving the major problems in the mortgage side? And vice versa.