2022 was an exciting year for the Jacksonville area, with First Coast companies expanding, new businesses moving here and national and local issues bringing a host of challenges and opportunities. As the year winds down, the Business Journal is speaking with CEOs across the First Coast about the issues they dealt with in 2022 and their outlook on what 2023 will bring.
I'm excited about the challenge. Everybody is saying it's going to be a really tough year, and we've been through tough years before. We've been through flat years in the last three years, but we just kept hitting and hitting our goals and blowing them away. And of course, every time you do it, it makes the next year tougher. And it may be tough for us to duplicate what we did this year.
We're going to get through it. I've had that for a long, long time and I've taken that philosophy everywhere I've ever been. Nobody says you have to participate in a recession. In any recession I've ever been through, there've been companies that have done very well, so why not us?