Here is the often-overlooked nugget in all of this: If you run a business at 10% profit that has hit its core capital target, you now have a business that is producing a MINIMUM return on equity of 50% PER YEAR! Investors would kill for a rate of return of 20% year after year, and yours is running somewhere between 50% and 100% per year. This is the true secret of building wealth within a privately held business.
