Meet Don Ward, Shoe Shiner Extraordinaire

[OneGrassRoot]

Allow this fine man to make your day, or at least make you smile.

[narnian60]

1. What a character.

Hope he makes a ton of money everyday.

[grantcart]

2. Love it. It pays to listen to the shoe shine guy.

As the story goes, it was a shoeshine boy who kept J. P. Morgan from losing it all in the crash.

According to folklore, one day while shining Morgan’s shoes, the boy offered the Wall Street titan a stock tip. Morgan wasn’t offended, but realized then if the shoeshine boy was in the market, everyone else must be too.

If that was in fact the case, there was no fresh money to send prices higher…and plenty of risk that only modest selling pressure could cascade to a crash.

[ohtransplant]

3. Don improved my day.

He brings to mind this quote, "If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." - Marc Anthony.