Know the proper pricing in the plumbing, heating and cooling industry
There was this day in the summer of 1988 when it dawned on me that in 12 short years, all four of our daughters would be in college at the same time. Kelly would be a senior; Meghan would be a sophomore, and the twins, Colleen and Erin, would be freshmen, and that’s exactly how it turned out. Scary stuff for old-school parents who see the kids’ education as their responsibility and their priority.
I was working for a rep at the time, so I knocked on the owner’s office door that summer and asked if some day, somehow, I might be able to buy into this company and get rich like he was. He smiled and said, “Absolutely not.”