An investor sees an opportunity before anyone else and acts. His wife was not impressed. Harder, he admitted. They were talking about money, he said. For him, he said, making money had always been easy.
Some men seem to instinctively know how to grip a tennis racket or play the piano.
He knew how to make a profit and had done so all his life. Any number of times he could have taken a cushy job on Wall Street or cashed out and retired. But he stayed in the game. He was a player. His wife, who had known him since high school, understood what drove him.