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Business developer's Lament: I give the same pep talk before each presentation over and over, but it works better when my people are better than the competition's people.
Now I don't want to sound like an alarmist, but getting zoning approvals is so fraught with misdirection’s, Rip Van Winkle bureaucrats and silent U-turns that it would be more productive to camp out at the bathrooms in city hall and pray.
QC - A quality control committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
When I first met the owner’s rep for this national retail chain, he finished a meeting by asking, “What is on your mind-if you'll forgive the overstatement."
Business Developer’s Surprise: When I was born, I was surprised to find out that I wouldn’t be able to speak for at least a year.
The length of any meeting should be directly proportionate to the capacity of the smallest bladder in the room. AUG
Getting in Heaven First A rabbi, a minister, and an architect arrived in heaven at the same time. There being room for only one that day, St. Peter turned down the men of the cloth. Opening the door wide for the architect, he said, “You have scared more Hell out of people with your estimates then they did with their Bibles!"
Never argue with a fool-people might know the difference.
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A developer, Joe, e-mailed, “Dear Sharon, please forgive me but I am becoming forgetful. I offered you the job last night but I forgot whether you said yes or no."
Building Inspectors “terms” should be 5-15 years with no possibility of parole.
I took my clients to the airport…a day early.
They have a DIAL a PRAYER for EPA officials now. You dial and it rings, and rings, and rings but nobody will answer. Eventually, it forwards you to another line where it beeps before you can leave a message.
If the entire world is a stage, shouldn’t all the subcontractors wear make-up?
She always walks onto a job site voice first.
Architects and contractors are a lot alike in some situations. Like when a building is collapsing on top of them.
Legend of St. Patrick is that he drove all the snakes out of Ireland and into general contractor school.
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