The risk-taker: How Joe Agresti built a business empire on accounting, culture and a will to be weird

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When Joe Agresti used his life savings and mortgaged his parents’ New Jersey home to buy into a failing Baton Rouge Mercedes-Benz dealership in 2004, his mother was terrified. His father’s response? “Trust this guy. He’s a winner.” Two decades later, that investment has grown into a variety of business ventures, including Dream Motor Group,

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