FORTUNE FAVORS THE PASSIONATE
“K eep your head down. Work hard.
Say your dreams out loud and never quit dreaming,” asserted Steve Miller.
It’s a mantra Miller has developed over the course of a life that began rooted in Montana’s logging industry. When a near-fatal accident seemingly robbed the fourth-generation logger and then-29-year-old husband and father of two of everything—he spent his first year post-accident cleaning movie theaters for a nighttime contractor—he was incapable of imagining that, in fact, an opportunity to become a leading salesman in the nation and a vice president of a beloved Western company and, above all, an artist, had just presented itself.
“I lost everything,” Miller described earnestly. “I went on food stamps. I had two little kids. I was going to bed every night saying, ‘God, help me. What am I going to do? What am I going to do?”
When a friend of his father’s offered Miller $300
