If you earn money, you spend any way you like, I say. Not a dime of TECO's money has gone for anything wasteful or ostentatious.

Don't think for a second you don't need the trappings in order to run successful business. David drives a most unpretentious SUV with a dent on the side...LOL  But when people have to see success, he has that too.

It's summed up for me like this, will he pick up a shovel and work when the time comes.

On the Compton lease we had load of gravel come in that David ordered. Instead of ordering a bobcat to come out, Linda and I met David and a worker out on the lease and we all shoveled and spread for few hours.

I know what being a shareholder is about.

And I'm not just talking about it, I actually saving it.