From the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, you're listening to the Entree Leadership podcast, the show

where I take calls from business owners and leaders, just like you, about what it takes to win at any stage of

business. I'm Dave Ramsey, your host with over 30 years of experience in the trenches, founding,

leading, and growing successful businesses. This week, our team is in Denver for Ontario Leadership

Summit, 2025. Summit is our annual world-class event where we've week our team is in Denver for Entree Leadership Summit 2020.

Summit is our annual world-class event where we bring together the best minds in leadership

along with about 3,000 of you guys for an unbelievable week of learning, growing, and leveling up.

We'd love to have you in the room with us next year, and today,

you're going to get a sneak peek at what it's all about. On this episode, you're going to hear a

talk I gave at a previous summit event, all about the nobility of business, because running a

business and making a profit is not evil or greedy.

When you do it the right way, it's all about integrity, humility, and service.

Let me show you exactly what I mean.

Enjoy.

So little Tommy was 14 and a half years old, a boy man. The year is the beginning years of the Civil War.

He has four little brothers and sisters, and he and his mom get word in Chattanooga, Tennessee

that his father had been killed in the Civil War.

They were river trash, we call them in Tennessee.

They lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee down at Mococasson Bend.

If you've ever driven around I-24, which obviously wasn't there then, you go around

Mockison Bend, this beautiful bend in the Tennessee River, and they lived there on the river

and fished for a living.

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