Epoch Times - Why It’s Never Too Late to Start a Business: Clay Clark
Aired: 2025-08-06
Duration: 02:30


=== Five Employees, Success (02:24) ===

[00:00:00]  Well, years ago, there was a gentleman who personifies the American dream.
[00:00:04]  His name is Kevin Thomas.
[00:00:06]  Everyone can look him up.
[00:00:07]  His company is called Multi-Clean.
[00:00:09]  Everyone can look him up.
[00:00:09]  I think it's multi-cleanok.com.
[00:00:12]  And Kevin made a profound statement.
[00:00:15]  He said that if he could have just five employees, that would be success.
[00:00:20]  You say, well, what does Kevin do?
[00:00:21]  It's a janitorial service.
[00:00:23]  You'd say, well, what does a janitorial service do?
[00:00:26]  He cleans commercial buildings.
[00:00:28]  And Kevin made that profound statement.
[00:00:29]  If I could just have five employees, that would be success.
[00:00:34]  Kevin came and spoke at my last conference.
[00:00:36]  Somebody put their hand up and they said, well, Kevin, you're having a lot of success.
[00:00:40]  How many employees do you have now?
[00:00:42]  He says, just a hair over 350.
[00:00:45]  Think about that for a second.
[00:00:46]  So this guy, Kevin Thomas, had a goal to have just five employees.
[00:00:50]  He thought entrepreneurship wasn't quite for him, that maybe he didn't have the education.
[00:00:55]  He didn't have the marketing background.
[00:00:57]  He didn't have the accounting.
[00:00:58]  He didn't have the skills.
[00:01:00]  But what he did is he went on over to ThriveTimeshow.com.
[00:01:02]  That's where I live, ThriveTimeshow.com.
[00:01:05]  And he went there and said, you know what?
[00:01:06]  I'm going to fill out the form and I'm going to schedule a call with this crazy guy and we'll just see what happens.
[00:01:11]  He has 350 employees.
[00:01:13]  He's one of the most successful people in his town.
[00:01:17]  And I share that story because everybody out there, you can become successful.
[00:01:22]  And when you are, money's a magnifier, good and bad, by the way.
[00:01:26]  So money allows you to be more of who you are.
[00:01:28]  So if you're a generous person who loves to donate and celebrate and tithe to your local church or community or your outreach, you can give more.
[00:01:36]  Money allows you to be more, to give more, to be, it allows you to just magnify who you are.
[00:01:42]  And so if you're watching this show and you're kind of in the mind space where my 37-year-old father was, where he was delivering pizzas at Domino's Pizza, which, again, great company.
[00:01:52]  We're appreciated for that opportunity.
[00:01:54]  He was working at Quick Trip gas stations and we appreciate that opportunity too.
[00:01:58]  He's working the night shift and I have not an ounce of resentment that my father was working the night shift during my years growing up.
[00:02:05]  I respect him for doing it.
[00:02:06]  But if you feel like, man, success has passed me by, Kevin was the guy in his early 40s who's having these thoughts and now he's profoundly successful.

=== Grillblazer's Boom (00:20) ===

[00:02:16]  Clay Stairs, who's now an Oklahoma state representative, he started his entrepreneurial path when he was 47 years old and now he's super successful.
[00:02:25]  Bob Healy had terminal cancer and was in his early 60s and now Grillblazer is booming.