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.
I think the best advice I can give to a young person starting out in business is
set up your dos and don'ts. You'll accept this, you won't accept that.
and stick with it. It makes you strong, it makes, it helps you. It it's like
having someone on your your shoulder. Just you have it, you know what is acceptable to you and what's not.
And if you follow those rules, you'll never be sorry.
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.
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
because people respect you for running a good business and having a belief in why you do things a certain way.
Right?
I love something you wrote. You said, judgment,
what belongs, what doesn't, and knowing when it's finished. They're like the hardest things in the world
in any business to actually be aware of.
Well, I always set up like I I like to complete because
but it's never completed.
I was going to say when is the project of yours complete?
never complete. It's never I mean, I get it set, so there's no punch list, nothing annoying in it.
But I always think homes live on. They change, chapters change.
Don't they age like wine? Like I've seen homes
Isn't Isn't there something beautiful about a patina?
Yes. A patina, I think gives a home life.
I like patina on my watches. The age represents
that it's had a history. It's had an experience before me.
Exactly.
That also helps you look forward.
Of course.
