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56 BCBUSINESS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021 What would you consider your greatest business achievement? The first car dealership that we got. I had no money, and I had $7,000 in equity in my house, and General Motors gave me a Pontiac-Buick franchise at 18th and Cambie that was not doing well. That would have been the most important transaction in my business life. Is this just legend, or is it true that when you started your sales meetings at 8 or 8:30 in the morning, you'd lock the door on whoever wasn't in there? Always. We always start on time. Sometimes we start early, but never late. You always stand up to meet someone, to shake Business as Usual Jim Pattison reveals the secret of his success, shares his eco-friendly agenda and explains why he keeps on working At 93, with no sign of slowing down, Jim Pattison still heads into his downtown Vancouver office seven days a week. From there, he presides over a diverse international business empire that grew from humble beginnings in 1961 to post $12.7 billion in revenue last fiscal year—a 16.5-percent jump over 2019. Canada Wide Media chair and CEO Peter Legge chatted with the chief executive of privately held Jim Pattison Group, which employs some 51,000 people, about where he came from and where his company is going. SEEING GREEN Environmental impact is now the No. 1 question as his company grows, Pattison says L E A D E R S H I P A