“A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.”
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.