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Successful entrepreneurs set their own boundaries: Victoria Hagan

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Interior design icon Victoria Hagan discusses the power of standing your ground as a creative entrepreneur and why refusing to negotiate your prices is the key to earning clients' respect and building a lasting business.

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I think the best advice I can give to a young person starting out in business is

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set up your dos and don'ts. You'll accept this, you won't accept that.

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and stick with it. It makes you strong, it makes, it helps you. It it's like

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having someone on your your shoulder. Just you have it, you know what is acceptable to you and what's not.

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And if you follow those rules, you'll never be sorry.

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Anytime I've ever broken like one of my little things, I I I look back and I'm like, I knew it was a mistake.

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Don't ever do it. But and everyone has their own tolerance for or how they want to run their business. But set it up and stick with it

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because people respect you for running a good business and having a belief in why you do things a certain way.

00:54 Speaker A

Right?

00:55 Speaker B

I love something you wrote. You said, judgment,

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what belongs, what doesn't, and knowing when it's finished. They're like the hardest things in the world

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in any business to actually be aware of.

01:09 Speaker A

Well, I always set up like I I like to complete because

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but it's never completed.

01:16 Speaker B

I was going to say when is the project of yours complete?

01:17 Speaker A

never complete. It's never I mean, I get it set, so there's no punch list, nothing annoying in it.

01:23 Speaker A

But I always think homes live on. They change, chapters change.

01:28 Speaker B

Don't they age like wine? Like I've seen homes

01:32 Speaker A

Isn't Isn't there something beautiful about a patina?

01:35 Speaker A

Yes. A patina, I think gives a home life.

01:39 Speaker B

I like patina on my watches. The age represents

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that it's had a history. It's had an experience before me.

01:47 Speaker A

Exactly.

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That also helps you look forward.

01:51 Speaker B

Of course.

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