CEO Thinks He Is a Self-Made Man

Not long ago, there was a CEO of a Fortune 500 company who pulled into a service station to get gas. He went inside to pay, and when he came out he noticed his wife engaged in a deep discussion with the service station attendant. It turned out that she knew him. In fact, back in high school before she met her eventual husband, she used to date this man.
The CEO got in the car, and the two drove in silence. He was feeling pretty good about himself when he finally spoke: "I bet I know what you were thinking. I bet you were thinking you're glad you married me, a Fortune 500 CEO, and not him, a service station attendant."
"No, I was thinking if I'd married him, he'd be a Fortune 500 CEO and you'd be a service station attendant."

John Ortberg in Love Beyond Reason (Zondervan, 1998), pp. 142-43