I Don't Believe Business Owners When They Say This

13 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker confronts a frequent excuse he hears from business owners—"I'm not very good with numbers." He expresses strong frustration, arguing that every aspect of running a business is fundamentally driven by numbers. He enumerates a wide range of business metrics—profit and loss, turnover, gross and net profit, overheads, conversion rates, leads, website visitors, and even social media engagement stats like likes, comments, shares, and page followers—demonstrating that numerical data underpins decision‑making across all functions. The speaker concludes that it is implausible for a business owner to claim a lack of numerical skill, as numbers are inseparable from business operations.

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One of the most common things I hear in businesses, oh, I'm not very good with numbers, right? And that really angers me. I nearly swore then. Really angers me, right? The reason for that is because everything about business involves numbers, okay? Profit and loss, turnover, gross profit, net profit, overheads and expenses, all numbers. Conversion rates, number of leads which you need, number of website visitors, number of likes, comments, and shares you get on your Facebook posts, number of people who like your Facebook page, they're all numbers. You look at everything within business, it all revolves around numbers in some way, shape, or form. So there's— I don't believe business owners can sit there and say, I'm not very good with numbers.