According to Leva Bonaparte, the key to running a business is doing it slowly but steadily. She explained, "My dad's a businessman, and he always said, 'Grow slowly, take your time. If you get too consumed by making more money, then the foundation of your house will crumble.'" Although Leva and her husband, Lamar Bonaparte, started their restaurant business over a decade ago, "there's still little cracks here and there that we try to figure out," she said.
How might the couple differ in business? "Lamar tries to keep things very black and white, and that's where we disagree," Leva said. "He is more about the bottom line and keeping things black and white, and I like to live in the gray. Business is run by humans, not machines. [In] the future, once we recognize that, we can build a lot cooler things and have more actualized [dreams], because you don't have to necessarily be a business owner right at the top to have your dream actualized."
She enthused, "I'm excited for everyone ... to see the people that are building this, holding up this epic dream that we have realized." She added, "It'll be fun for people to see that business is personal."
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