Klink grew up in Delmar, New York, as he says, "very poor. My parents were divorced and things were tough." He went to West Point and studied math and science. "I was caught up in getting out and being successful," he admits. "There wasn’t room in my life for anything else."

He did two tours in Vietnam and then went to the Harvard Business School. After working for a while in the Boston area, he headed out to Indianapolis, Indiana to take a better job. Ultimately he wanted to work for himself. He teamed up with a partner and they bought a business that manufactures wax products for automobiles. For years he and his partner concentrated on making enough money not to have to worry about money ever again. And that’s when Klink had his epiphany.