but as steven watts will tell you, it's all really nice. ladies and gentlemen, steven watts. [applause] >>> i just told crosby he is a hard act to follow here. dale carnegie would be proud, i think. you have to excuse me. i have had a terrible cold so i may begin croaking like a frog so pretend at it natural. ever since rob westbrook wrote that think in my book i have been giving any talks dressed in a toga, but my legs aren't good enough so i got the suit instead today. i want to talk about my book about dale carnegie, very influenceal figure in this country, and if you have the book i'll sign it for you afterwards. the notion of success, i think, lay at the heart of the american dream. and in fact the idea of the individual moving ahead in the race of life, pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps-as the old saying has it, it's imbedded in our national dna. all of us have heard some version of go make something of yourself, go make something out of yourself. usually from anxious parents during our adolescence, when we're preparing to good off to college, and actually from