The speaker's grandfather, an immigrant who arrived in Canada in the 1940s, became his mentor after his father died. He taught him to read the Wall Street Journal, invest in the stock market, and build a business from the ground up, lessons the speaker credits with shaping his entire life.
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I do like the challenge of the whole thing of operating the business. I thank my grandfather, who was my mentor. There you go. Mentors. My grandfather, you know, basically guided me through that life. My dad died when I was, when I was very young. My grandfather stepped up, and I can remember learning things from him that I never would have learned from my dad. Like, he showed me how he would read the Wall Street Journal, and he would show me how he did the stock market. And I had no clue about this stuff. He ran his own business. He came here as an immigrant through Canada with his mother, who was divorced, which nobody got divorced back then. Like, we're talking very— Oh, yeah. '40s. And he came here and he had to learn English with the nuns. And he had a strong work ethic. He was in the military. He had a strong work ethic. And he started at the very lowest place in his business and he saved every penny and bought out the owner.