Small Business Makeover: Rebuilding from Real Estate Rubble
CNN Money
November 19, 2009
By Patricia B. Gray
POWELL, Ohio (Fortune Small Business) -- Semper fidelis, the U.S. Marine Corps motto, means "always faithful" in Latin. As a young grunt serving at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Duane Draughon learned to remain loyal to the mission -- "whatever the cost," he says.
That mind-set has guided him since he left the Corps in 1997. "It's probably the only reason I've survived in business," says Draughon, who served as a police sergeant in the Marines and now owns a patio-paving company outside Columbus, Ohio. "I will never, ever give up."
