Suppose we clean up fifty or a hundred thousand on a big deal.

We've got to split it several ways, perhaps pay a big piece to the police for protection, perhaps pay a lot of lawyers, and then perhaps get sent away for a year or several years, during which we don't take in a nickel.

I figured that over a term of years my average income was mighty small.

As a business man it seemed to me that I was in a poor business, with no future.

So I decided to get into a new business that had a future.