We've established a great business model for horse owners, and many of them are also dog owners. They have suggested we expand into dog products, and the more we looked into it, the more we liked the fit.

Within two months, The Poseidon Restaurant on Longboat Key went out of business. And the impact just spilled down the line.

the epitome of how a financial institution must not conduct its business.

Our business is booming at the moment. It's actually affecting our stock levels. It was the busiest summer in my six years here. This is the first place I've ever sold cars where no one asks about fuel consumption.

Together, our companies only have about 17 percent of the pay television market. Just the Comcast-AT&T [business] alone will have something well north of that, ... Just that company, in the cable industry, has about 78 percent, according to the FCC report in January. So we're a very small fish in a very big pond.

It's a lot easier to go after our small business than the government. After all, it's legal to buy cigarettes (in our establishments), but then we can't smoke them?