In my final, last minute plans to leave Florida, I rewrote the script, opting out of a rental car after I decided I really did not want to drive the freeways of South Florida any longer (I will give the freeways of north Florida the benefit of the doubt highly but I remain guardedly suspicious). The hotel hooked me up with a guy whose costs wasn't all that much. Less in fact than a rental car I would have paid to get me from the hotel to the airport and nowhere else.
The driver was an older gentlemen, formerly from Boston. He was in business before, retired early and then got bored. He apparently was in the computer business. Or rather making the parts that made Intel able to provide the chips that could be used for their old slogan of "Intel inside." From what he was saying on that little Intel chip you would have seen a logo that said "Hugh inside."
He filled me with information on his past, his business connections, and is deceptively simple formula for success and what it's like in south Florida. When I retired at 55, I sold my business for a mere $66 million. In Boca Raton, that means I service the people who live there that have billions with a 'b.'"
"Everything you touch is touched by the hands of someone who is making millions. All you need for that to be you is $400 to incorporate a business and hard work. The only reason you're not one of them is because with all your connections you still have not convinced one person to believe, yourself. I was 13 when I left home and quit school and went into business and I did okay."
"When Tip O’Neil was speaker of the house, you remember Tip, right, powerful politician from Massachusetts who was a democrat during the Reagan era, he wanted to make me entrepreneur of the year for Boston. I refused saying I was not ab entrepreneur. He asked me why? I told him simply I wasn't. When he pushed me I said, "tip, how can I be something when I can't even spell the word."
