When you hear that three or four times, you start to think about moving on. Over a period of time, he realized that his background was in sports and creativity. He couldn't put it on paper as a marketing man or a numbers guy. He knew numbers playing cards and stuff, but when you start to deal with 14 CPAs, it was too tough. It wasn't what Al envisioned, so he did what you should do in that situation.
Life is too short.
After Fischer left Medalist, he conceded in an interview at the end of his 27-year tenure at the company that McGuire had been an extremely valuable asset. But when Al talks, all people hear are the one-liners, not what he's saying in between. He grew up with McGuire in Brooklyn and had McGuire as his best man at his wedding and as the godfather for his youngest son. McGuire recruited Savio to work for Medalist in 1979, when Savio became vice president of the company's specialty sales division. Savio said McGuire also played a key role in the successes of Medalist's specialty sales division.