“We call this a pinky-up-free zone. It’s not frou frou. You know, we like nice things, we love great products, but we still want to have value; be approachable to just about anybody. Whether you’re a millionaire or you’re a local server at a local rest...

  “It’s something that I confront all the time, in music circles and in oil and gas circles. You know, these people are sitting across from each other with misconceptions about the other person, and at the end of the day,

“Trust your big picture. Let your staff and everybody else help you with almost every detail and the little things.” — Derek Drushel You’d be hard pressed to meet someone more passionate and goal-oriented than Derek Drushel.

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox “There’s three things in business: quality, service, and price – and you can pick two of the three things.” — BJ Rycus, Quoting His Grandfather,

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” — Mahatma Gandhi It’s only fitting that the first interview should be with Kirbay Preuss of Preuss Pets. Preuss Pets is a pets store located in Old Town, Lansing, Michigan,