The distinction between business and shop-keeping isn't divided by scale or revenue.
Business means operating together with the people you've hired, not just on your own talent alone. When it runs solely on the capabilities of the boss or a few executives, that's shop-keeping.
Business is not so much a means to accumulate money as it is a vehicle used in the process of realizing a group's ideals. Depending on the founders' or executives' capital, that vehicle could be a bus or an airplane.
They might follow regulations well, or they might drive recklessly or commit hit-and-runs. Some might be driving themselves, others might be passengers stopping briefly.
Considering all these social, economic, and human aspects - that is business.
Business is merely a tool for reaching a destination. It starts heading somewhere the moment it begins. Each business has its own destination. People gather according to the destination, and people leave according to it too.
Through various driving methods and compliance with flight rules, the business progresses toward its destination while new people join and existing members leave repeatedly.
For business, people are more important than money.
If you want to be great, serve others. (Whether that's employees, executives, or the CEO.)
So what if you didn't start with an airplane or a sports car? Even if you're driving a tractor, as long as you have companions to laugh with, chat with, look at the sky together, and feel the wind - where can't you go!
