Hall of Fame--Master of Survivor Skills

"He yelled, 'Where's my equipment?' " Stillo recalls. "But I was paying him every month; never missed a payment. He was happy after a bit. If we hadn't done that, we wouldn't have been successful. To this day, I've never had to lay anyone off, even during down times."

Stillo has a great admirer in the form of Fred Bennett, vice president of Gould Paper in New York and a major paper supplier to Sandy Alexander. Bennett has known Stillo for 38 years and considers him to come straight out of the Horatio Alger mold.