Creating or managing a business are not easy tasks, as the businessman has emphasized on several occasions. Jose Eliasowner of La Sirena supermarkets, as well as other energy and technology companies in Spain. The millionaire has spoken about it in numerous interviews and on his podcast Find your life, where in his last intervention he left a sentence to remember: “If you come here to be leaders, know that it is not free. It cost me the divorce.”
He says he said these words during a conference in a university center and, with that, he wanted to put on the table what Professional ambition can sometimes conflict with personal lifeespecially if they are high-ranking businessmen. Furthermore, he gave as an example a conversation he had with a 42-year-old businessman.
“He said to me ‘damn, how did you deal with that? because my partner is starting to tell me that I spend a lot of hours on this’. And I say yes, you’re both right. You because you’re passionate about what you do and you don’t want to give up on it and Her because she thinks you put more hours into your business. than the relationship. And you are both right and both are respectable, but what do you want?” José Elías said to this person.
“It’s a balance, being the best at something is not free, there is nothing free in the world“added the businessman, who thus reflected on the personal sacrifices that a businessman must face and highlighted the reality that, the greater the obsession with success, the greater the problems that we can have in our personal and emotional life by having to put them aside.
Despite this, José Elías assures that these problems are not lasting, but are inevitable at certain stages of business management: “The counterpart of being a great businessman it’s that your personal relationships, for at least a while, suffer.
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