Meet Jack and Jerry. Jack Henry and Jerry Hall launched a software company in the back of a small engine repair shop. Thirty years later, Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., is a thriving operation with over 3,700 employees in close to 50 locations around the United States. They started writing software for a handful of community banks and now serve thousands of diverse organizations which rely on their financial solutions. JHA's annual revenue has grown to over $668 million. In the 1990s, their stock was the second best performing on the NASDAQ market, growing at an average compound annual return of over seventy-five percent. Talk about the American Dream. A couple of small-town guys had an idea, nurtured it, and worked hard to turn it into a reality bigger than anything either of them expected. Combine a visionary with someone who makes things happen, add a laser-like focus on taking care of their customers and their employees, and you have the foundations of Jack Henry & Associates' success. Jack and Jerry's story is one of friendship, business, partnership, and hard work. It is about what can happen when the desire to succeed empowers the fear of failure. The JHA story is an inspiration for anyone with a dream and the desire to achieve it.