"Kyle Ray never felt comfortable in the classroom. "I didn't do great in school, and I was basically told, the best you can hope for is to be a manager of a restaurant," he told Business Insider. "That's just been an internal driver - like, 'I'm going to prove this person wrong.' And that still drives me really hard today.""
""I didn't go to college and get a business degree, so I read a lot of books," said Ray, who spent years bartending and waiting tables to pay the bills while slowly building Geek Window Cleaning. It took about seven years until he started earning enough income from his side gig to quit his service jobs. Today, Ray reads at least a book a month - and he has a strategy that holds him accountable."
""My hack for reading is I put a $100 bill as my bookmark, and when I'm finished reading the book, I get to spend it," he said. "It's a good motivator." He can spend it on anything he wants, as long as it's not work-related. Sometimes, he'll add the bill from a book he's just completed to his next book and save a couple of hundred dollars so that he and his wife can splurge on a fancy dinner."
Kyle Ray lacked formal business education and did not feel comfortable in the classroom, which fueled a drive to prove doubters wrong. He built Geek Window Cleaning while bartending and waiting tables, gradually growing the side gig into a six-figure company serving Houston and Austin. Ray spent about seven years before earning enough to quit service jobs. He credits business and leadership books for many operational and leadership principles. Ray enforces a habit of reading at least one book per month using a $100-bill bookmark incentive, sometimes saving the bills for non-work splurges with his wife.
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