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Laura Clements

'When you walk out of Cardiff Central station, everything you see in front of you we've done' The council house kid who made an £85m company from £250 in his bank account

One of Cardiff's most successful businessmen, who started his own multi-million pound company with just £250 in the bank, has one motto: "It's better to make a bad decision, than no decision at all." Does that mean Steve Borley has ever regretted a decision he's made? "No," he said. "No regrets, you've got to keep looking forward." It sounds like another motto.

We're sitting in the newly-opened community café at Llanrumney Hall - which Steve took on in 2015. But he never planned to become the saviour of the former crumbling Grade II listed building. Nor did he ever plan on becoming a director of Cardiff City Football Club or the club chairman. There was no plan: "My plan was to have no plan," he said. It's how he's approached nearly everything in life.

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