It's sold more businesses than it has managed to buy.

Through it all, we've managed, luckily, to stay here. Hopefully, we'll be around for a lot more years to come.

This is one of the most difficult retail businesses to be successful at because with most businesses, you buy finished goods, put them on the shelf and sell them, ... But in the flower business you are buying raw product, manufacturing the goods and then selling them, That's where you lose your shirt is the manufacturing, or assembling of arrangements.

We recently sold a lovely 17th century coffer with beautiful carving for $3,500. What else can you buy from that period for that price?

[George] Clooney seems to be the one Big Star, give or take a Bono, who has managed to have his cake and credibility, too.

It's really not too much different from other businesses. You buy at wholesale and sell at retail. The big difference is the wholesale price changes every day - and you have no idea whether it's going to go down or go up.