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I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!