CHAPTER 12: Your Grand Exit - Dying or Selling   - Pay Yourself First! - How Much is Your Company Worth? - Puffing Up the Hog to Take to the Fair - Timing - The Search for the Perfect Wave - A Clean House Brings A Higher Price - Shoring Up Your Organization Structure - A Credible Board of Directors - Corporate Literature - Clean Financials - Stable Long-term Contracts - Cleaning Up Your Paperwork - Information and Financial Control Systems - The Transition Management Team - Lawsuits in Progress - Structuring Your Deal - The S Corporation   "Some long for the glories of this world; and some sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come. Ah, take the cash and let the promise go..."