Biggest Regret Over Deal Not Taken
Business · Reflections
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Tom: Yea, Home Depot! Home Depot had a place out on, just off 285 and just one place and that’s all it was, just Home Depot. And they decided they would expand. Well, I had already been going there a little bit to buy stuff, and they had a pretty good operation. So they decided they’d go public and open up some more.
Well, I gave considerable consideration to putting twenty-five thousand dollars in it. And the two owners, they had said they would open up and go public and sell some stock. Well, I had twenty-five thousand dollars I could spare, and just almost went and bought it, but I didn’t. And if I had, that twenty-five — look what it’d be today.
But that’s the only one I can think back that I wish I had done and I didn’t.