The most important lesson I ever learned has been my motto and inspiration throughout all of my life — “Add pride to his life, his work will show it.”
Since my entire career has been in this great construction industry, you all know how critical pride is to our employees, our work and ourselves. Being a craftsman, with the enviable ability to look back at a job well done, permeates pride throughout every bone in our bodies. I never had to really learn that lesson because it was a God-given trait I inherited from my Pap, who was a very proud craftsman. Learning how to become a proud man was the toughest part of that lesson, which began for me on the very first day I went to grade school.