When Ken Lanci was 13, his father purchased a Cleveland printing company for the bargain-basement price of $1.
"Nobody," Lanci recalled thinking at the time, "sells anything good for a buck."
Sure enough, unbeknownst to his dad, the business came with a $25,000 tax lien.
Fast-forward nearly five decades. Lanci, today a successful printing
mogul whose first taste of the industry came in those teenage years,
drives a luxury car worth more than most homes. He lives in a suburban
mansion valued at nearly $2 million. He keeps an orange glow -- a
distinguishing contrast to his snow-white hair -- with the help of a
personal tanning bed.
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