What You'll Hear: * Grant spent 20 years as a quantity surveyor including his own consultancy * He started his charity Hand in Hand while working part-time as a quantity surveyor * 20 years ago he went into business that is completely commercial with no donor funds * This is completely sustainable as long as the business is making money * The purpose of the business was to create fairer employment and training but a business has to make money or it will go bankrupt * One of their workers started their workers 30 minutes early for prayer * The quadruple bottom line is economic, spiritual, social and environmental * "It takes a certain kind of person to be an entrepreneur...There's nothing certain about business. Business at different times can work and not work" * Break 1 * "The more people that contribute to the decision making process, the richer the decisions that are made" * "I effectively surrounded myself with really strong characters who had something to bring to the table...because I wanted strong decisions" as part of a voluntary management board * "I made myself accountable voluntarily to this board" * If someone tells you to go meet with a certain person, do it! * "I've never made promises about the rate of return that investors can receive...I've never tried to persuade anyone to invest" * "If God has called you into the ministry of business...then He's not calling you in isolation" * "We've always focused on investors investing in a particular project" * Break 2 * "One day I was in Mozambique and was asked to source a hovercraft" * "The challenge I find in life...as a Christian how do you know what God is saying when things are going wrong?" * "Too many people are inclined to give up too soon when faced with challenges" * "If you take life too seriously and all you see is the challenges, then you end up being miserable and miss the humorous side" * "We pay construction workers according to what they do" * "The whole purpose of Jubilee...we can do that here and now...in the way that we structure our businesses" * "Fairer means you don't disproportionately reward the risk takers" * "We need to look at the person God has made us...it is our fun to explore and find out why I am like I am and how does God want to use me in His Kingdom right here, right now" * Email grant@handinhandgroup.com * To purchase the book, go to https://www.kregel.com