CHAPTER 15
Nobilize Honoring
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
—ANDREW CARNEGIE
Two things I remember about my very first suit. It was a powder blue suit—perfect for Easter Sunday church dress-up. And the whole experience was a “big boy” event. I was seven years old. Joseph N. Neel’s menswear in Macon, Georgia, was a two-hour drive from my rural hometown, and we visited only every August to buy school clothes. But this purchase required a special spring journey.
The “big boy” event started with the salesperson pulling up a chair in front of me at my eye level. He shook my hand and introduced himself by his first name, not “Mr.” Without a single glance at my dad, he asked me about my favorite color. And my second favorite ...
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