Brad Jacobs

There was telexes and twixes that barely worked.

And so your word really was your bond.

And you needed to trade with people that were going to perform.

Because if you bought a cargo of oil for someone, $23, and then the market went up to $25, you didn't want a partner that said, I'm not honoring that deal.

There's nothing in writing.

So you needed people who would honor their work, had integrity.

He placed a very high value on integrity and dealing with people.

And he put a lot of emphasis on dealing with people who would perform what they said they were going to perform.

I was fortunate to hang around with his family a lot of times on Shabbat.

But unfortunately, on Shabbat, you can't talk business.

So I couldn't talk business.

But that's okay.

We talk about life.

But I had many lunches with him and his son, Michael, who's a good friend of mine now.

And I spent a lot of time with his wife, Mrs. Jesselson, Erica Jesselson.

She has amazing stories.

She came out of the Holocaust.

And before the Holocaust, she had dozens and dozens of, she had a pretty big family, the Poppenheim family in Austria and Vienna.

She had dozens and dozens of cousins.

And after the Holocaust, she had a handful.