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My uncle, Peter Dussmann, started out cleaning offices, then started an office cleaning company, than bought an office building...now he owns one of the largest service companies in the world (50k+ employees).

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dussmann

When you make money it opens up other opportunities. How you leverage them is what matters.

That said, I'm 1000% Uncle B.

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Too many people think of scaling too narrowly. They think it means doing more of the same thing, which it can. Or it can mean something like this.

There's no reason a cleaning service can't scale very, very far. Look at Merry Maids.

Great points. Also allows him to learn, grow (both in business and to look for new opportunities), and adapt.

Plus, its pretty easy to just "get a job". Creating a job or a business is much trickier. Kudos to your uncle!

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