It's just like wearing a big gold chain around your neck; it's a celebration of success and excess.

I'd like to see it go gold (U.S. shipments in excess of 500,000 copies) and I think it will.

Excess is success.

The secret to our success is that the product we developed is flexible and simple enough at an affordable price to handle a range of customers, from large to small, and we can use it to administer really complex investment products handling the intricacies and complexities of the product, or simpler, less complicated insurance products.

In a world of music where success is defined by gold or platinum, our friend Phil Walden was best defined by his heart of gold.

Biggie was part of a dying breed of real lyricists. He continued the East Coast tradition of Big Daddy Kane or LL of being heavy on lyrics with metaphors and similes. He was a great storyteller.