I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing. Joe Mimran More Quotes by Joe Mimran More Quotes From Joe Mimran Fashion has never been considered part of culture in Canada, and I think that needs to happen. Joe Mimran fashion needs thinking People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective. Joe Mimran perspective dream people The hardest thing, particularly in the fashion industry in Canada, has been access to capital. Joe Mimran canada hardest fashion In my early days, fashion was considered a very high risk industry. The failure rate is very high. Trying to get capital and trying to find people who specialize in that industry is very difficult too. Joe Mimran risk fashion people There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business. Joe Mimran growing different way There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too. Joe Mimran fashion media thinking Many other countries that Canada competes with, fashion is part of their culture, whether it be the U.K. or Italy. They get a lot of support from the government. I think that's going to be required here in Canada, if we ever want to truly get behind the creativity that is here in this country. Joe Mimran creativity fashion country No matter how hard it is to raise the capital to do that, do everything in your power to buy every property you have occupied if you can. In the end, that will be worth quite a bit of money. Joe Mimran raises ends matter
