When a financially independent person speaks, the Team listens.  When I heard Billy Florence was coming to speak I brought a notepad and took as many notes as I could.  He taught me one of the keys to success in this business and that is always to help the next person win.  If you help enough other people get what they want you will get what you want.  Billy Florence is a server of people.  Many times you would see diamonds with very small groups so puffed up in themselves, but Billy with a massive group was always so cordial and encouraging.  When I first met Billy I wasn't even a platinum and yet he treated me like a diamond.  I felt the way to thank him was to join him at diamond club.  Billy Florence is one of my heroes in this business and in life.  He has remained faithful to the same wife (Peggy) and has raised three great children into young adults.  Billy to me is the modern day Robert E. Lee, very competent and yet very humble and loyal.  A young mother asked Mr. Lee shortly before his death if he had any words of advice for her newborn son.  Robert said, "Teach him to deny himself."  That is such a lost art in today's microwave society of instant gratification, but Billy Florence has this die to self attitude.  I pray for our country that more men serve others like my friend and mentor Billy Florence. God Bless!