investor. And he turned me down initially for a job. And then I decided I would get him to sponsor me for the CFA exam, chartered financial analysis exam because there were only two CFA's on the island. He was one. You needed to get a CFA to sponsor you. So I wrote him back and said, geez, thanks very much for turning me down, but would you sponsor me for a CFA? And he agreed that a year later when I passed the first level of the CFA, I wrote him back. Thanked him for sponsoring me, told him I passed the first level and he invited me in. After a conversation and a Saturday morning in his office, which used to be in the attic of a shopping center, he offered me a job. And so that certainly changed my professional life and my life in many respects. And I guess my career developed rapidly because at the time it was just Sir John and I in the office on the investment side, he had two accountants, two secretaries and receptionist. And we had an office in Fort Lauderdale with more analysts, (5/57)
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