Best advice or quote from your parents?

[michael lang]

Tony, I'm glad you got the comedy in what my dad had told me once. I didn't get it until after I bought something w/out telling Shelly about it first. At that moment when I told my wife about this purchase is the exact moment when the light went on.

Another thing he told me was when I started selling Christmas cards & candy in the winter and cutting grass in the summer, I was very young, 8-9 maybe. I remember we're sitting at the dinner table after he got home from work and he asked how my little business was coming along. I said that I was having trouble getting people to buy from me. He looked at me and said, "if you ever get anything from me it should be this, If you don't ask for it you're never going to get it" I have never forgotten those words, I would not be where I am today had he not told me that.