Taking risks comes with the territory for business owners. But Keith Robillard upped the ante considerably in 1994 when he moved to diversify his father’s Canadian septic-service business, Georgian Bay Sanitation Inc., by buying 12 portable restrooms – with money he and his then-fiancée, Amy, were saving for their wedding.
“She almost killed me when I told her,” Robillard says. “But I had calculated what they would cost, and how much I could make renting them, so I was confident I could pay it back before the wedding.
“I bought them in April, and they all were rented out by May,” he
