How so? What decision was it?
The Starbucks franchise?
Tom platz once had a friend who wanted to start a coffee shop franchise, and asked tom if he wanted to put some money up and be involved, Tom didn't think the idea would take off and turned down the offer. His friend continued with the idea anyway. Turned out to be the start of Starbucks, Tom recently said he was gutted.
Dig around you'll find the article somewhere, good read.
He had just won a big contest and actually had the money to drop...
One of those "things" where you can take a chance and lose, or take a chance and be set forever ~