Brush with greatness

I had the pleasure, moons ago, of being in the audience when the great motivational speaker Zig Ziglar spoke. He was an electrifying presence, and you walked away thinking you could accomplish whatever miracle you set your mind to accomplishing.

“You can have anything you want in this world if you just help enough other people get what they want,” Zig would say. That’s why I have never begrudged rich people their riches: In the vast majority of cases, that wealth represents the millions o...