Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone elses life.