Where it started
My grandfather started a scrap yard in 1972 with almost nothing. My parents got married at seventeen and eighteen and spent the next thirty years turning it into something that could feed a family.
The question at lunch
I was seventeen, running a cutting torch in July heat, when I asked my dad how a guy gets an office job in the air conditioning. He said, "Why don't you try going to college?" I told him nobody in our family ever had. He said, "That's my point. Somebody needs to go."
Why I wrote it down
It isn't a business book and there's no framework in it. It's one father writing things down before he runs out of time to say them. I'm not selling anything here. If you get something out of it, go write something down for whoever comes after you.