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The Elements of Building, A Business Handbook for Residential Builders & Tradesman
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2014
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BUILDER: Builders & Tradesmen Tell Their Stories
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CONTRACTING SUCCESS
Every year in the United States, thousands of residential contractors fail because success requires more than trade skill, it requires office work; accounting, billing, advertising, estimating/bidding, management, and so on. The Elements of Building (EOB) lays out what is required clearly and succinctly. Many long-time contractors have said of EOB, “I wish I’d had this book when I was starting out
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“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
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“Omit needless words.”
― The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
― The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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