Tim, being the adventurer and opportunist he is, took it! Within a year his first Edina service station showed a profit. This meant Tim had to start over with a new station and there was no guarantee this business would obtain the same level of success as his previous one. The catch, he had to sell the old station on 46th and Nicollet. This was his chance to have an Edina car repair shop. Mobil vacated their training center on 54th and France and offered Tim an opportunity to lease it. Tim’s hard work started paying off as his station grew and showed amazing promise.īefore long, Tim was presented with remarkable business opportunity. “I was a workaholic… Worked 6 days a week, you know 10, 12, 14 hour days…” Tim said. Truth is, it takes a lot of hard work! Luckily, Tim didn’t skimp on hard work and made many sacrifices from the get-go. All they need to do is conceive a great idea and give it a little spark of actualization. We like to imagine successful people find a great idea and let it run on autopilot. I thought my spark was a passion and a love for cars…” So, Tim just did what he did best and the rest fell into place. In his own words, “Like every young adult I had a huge spark to be an entrepreneur but didn’t realize it. Tim never saw himself as an entrepreneur when he was starting out. At every point, the entrepreneur’s guess is just as good as ours. The best stories are ones even the storyteller can’t predict. The best stories unfold before our very eyes. In fact, it isn’t so for most entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur sits down and charts a route from point “A” to “B” with all of their “i’s” dotted and “T’s” crossed, but this isn’t always so. We like to think of great achievements as well-orchestrated works of art. Since Tim was below the old age of 21… His father had to sign off on the lease for his first service station. He reminisces “In them days you had your car repaired where you bought your gas, and they were called service stations”. Tim Murphy took his first step at the ripe young age of 20 when he signed an agreement with Mobil oil to lease one of their service station on 46th and Nicollet. In his own words, “I failed one class in high school it was English and I failed because it was the first class after my auto mechanics class…” As a senior he was obsessed with this class. Looking back, Tim realized his father didn’t really hate cars in general, he just hated selling wholesale auto parts for a living.ĭuring Tim’s High School Years his favorite class was vocational auto mechanics. The more he complained, the more wide-eyed Tim became. Tim Murphy’s father would complain every evening when he came home. For Tim Murphy, the seeds of his passion for cars were planted by a father’s hate for his car-related job. Sometimes seeds of passion are planted in unconventional ways. We all expect our parents to shape us and our view of the world, but it doesn’t always happen in the way we expect.
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