Tom Leykis - If it weren't for this man, I would still be out doing the darker things humans are capable of, instead of being a decent human being and trying to make an honest living. While his advice about females is 100% dead on, it never did me any good, as if there is one thing I am good at, it is girls. But he is my #1 awesome dude.
Steve Pavlina - His blog is the reason I am here right now. I never really read too much of it, and I don't really know who he is aside from a blogger, but one night I found his blog on Google, and the result LP I got to talked about making money blogging, and talked about AdSense. That opened my eyes to IM and AM, and if I never would have read that, the internet would still be about nothing but porn and pirated software to me (and sluts on myspace).
ewealth.com - That was the first forum I found, and they didn't kick me out for all my dumb questions.
Just a small good group of people.
My grandma - She is just one bad mofo, and has always been there for me, even in my toughest times. I could call her collect from another state and tell her I have nowhere to go and nothing to eat and no car, and she would take the small paycheck she gets to live on and rent a damn car and literally drive for 2 days to come get me. No joke, this has happened. She is a fucking rockstar, and a big influence in my goal of financial success.
My mom - While we have our ups and downs, she is still my mom, and she has helped me through a lot of shit in life, and put up with a lot of my crap when I was younger. Another personal reason I would like to make some real money, I want to get them both back on their feet and remove them from the "severe poverty" bracket of society.
My mom's ex husband/my ex stepdad - I hated the fucker when he was around, but he was the smartest man I have ever met. He put me on my first computer, and supported the habit of exploring computers back in the 1993-1994 era... He was an english dude that had just moved out here with his parents from England a few years before him and my mom met. In England he was a highly graduated student, and held a very good position at IBM. IBM moved him and his family out here, but then a few issues arose with the company, and he switched jobs. He then took a job offer from Arco (BP Fuel) as lead mainframe administrator for the computer that processed every Arco fuel transaction in the united states. Arco finally outsourced his $300k/yr. (in the late 90's) job overseas, and he now works at Home Depot. He taught me many things that I still use to this day, and I appreciate that.
