Back in 1985 I was very fortunate in making a couple of really good business moves. I sold an interest in my construction company that netted a good amount of money. It was not only the cash I got, but it positioned me to be a bigger and better construction company.

At the about the same time I was able to sell a piece of property, which was an office and construction yard, that I had bought and used for almost a decade and sold for 4 1/2 times what I paid for it.

Between both of those deals it left me with more money than I could spend, but I was working on it, hard.