I cut the corner a little close, and dropped the inside wheel of the feed wagon in the ditch. The Minneapolis Moline 670 was past its prime, by about twenty years, and I was stuck. I hiked back to the pickup, fetched dad, and he started up another tractor and pulled me out. He wasn’t happy. “Blake,” he says, “you’ve got to concentrate on what you’re doing. The money is here, not Wall Street.” I guess maybe I’d been talking a bit too much about my portfolio, which at that time consisted of a utility stock and 100 shares of Texaco.
Taking Stock
Taking Stock
Taking Stock
I cut the corner a little close, and dropped the inside wheel of the feed wagon in the ditch. The Minneapolis Moline 670 was past its prime, by about twenty years, and I was stuck. I hiked back to the pickup, fetched dad, and he started up another tractor and pulled me out. He wasn’t happy. “Blake,” he says, “you’ve got to concentrate on what you’re doing. The money is here, not Wall Street.” I guess maybe I’d been talking a bit too much about my portfolio, which at that time consisted of a utility stock and 100 shares of Texaco.