I remember when my first mentor, Richard Stanford, asked me, “What do you really want?” I said, “I want some money.” Money really was all I wanted then because I was earning only $4,000 a year on disability, but I owed $6,000. If I took everything I earned for eighteen months to pay off my debt, with nothing left to live on, I would have just broken even. Richard pulled a wad of cash out of his pocket and said, “This stuff can’t talk but
