Many of you pride yourself on being good business people. Suppose someone reputable made you the following offer: You go into business with me. It will be expensive, but I guarantee it will be worth it. You dig up whatever cash you can find. Take out an equity loan on your house, cash in the value of your life insurance policy, pay the penalty, and take the money out of your IRA accounthowever you can come up with cash, do it. Then, if you work hard, and follow the company manual, sacrifice and give your very best, I promise you will get back 100 times whatever you invested. If you raise $10,000, you will get back 1 million. If you raise $100,000, you will get back 10 million. Is there anybody in this room who would turn his or her back on that kind of opportunity?

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