1997
" Come to work for me. I will pay
you 10% on anything you sell, and you can have all the existing
customer that I currently have to help you get started. Trust
me...I honor my word..."
"How does a multiplexer work? A
multiplexor records all cameras all the time. I don't know how
it does it, but it does is somehow..."
"I want to buy you your own sales
van as soon as we close Sonoma County Transit."
"I don't like to supplement my invoices
after the job is done because of cost overruns, unforeseen circumstances,
or change orders by the client. It doesn't make me look good,
and I don't like confrontation."
"I gave Christy a dozen roses. Don't
tell anyone."
"I had an affair with my buddy's
wife just to get even with him. What do you think of that?"
1998
"I want all missed calls from customers
to be returned within five minutes. Never mind that I return my
calls whenever I damn feel like it... Golf anyone?"
"I would never sell behind your
back."
"I'll never use that Ultrak crap."
"I'll never use Siamese wire. Never."
1999
"I'm too busy to study for my contrators
license. Stop bugging me about it. Can't you see that I'm looking
at plans for building a new house."
"Don't worry that we are six weeks
out. You just sell, sell, sell, and I will hire the additional
technicians if we get too busy... Just get out there and sell,
then I will tell them when and if I will install it..."
"Norm? He's not a smart man."
"Go ahead and develop a website
on your own time if you think the internet is going to be so great.
But I don't want anything to do with it. It will never work and
will cheapen the industry. I don't want to sell that cheap crap.
Plus, the money is in the labor, not in the equipment."
"I'm not making enough money to
keep clean books, pay employee benefits, insure against accidents,
and worry about healthcare for you guys. "
"You want to install, George because
we are ten weeks out? You, George, can never install. You don't
know how to install, and I won't let you install. My
name is riding on every job and I can't trust anybody to you do
a good job. I'm the God in CCTV. "
"Will you pick up my order at TRI-ED
since you are in that area today, and I will pay you for gas?"
"ADI and TRI-ED will only sell to
dealers. They will never sell to you."
"We need security stickers, and
I want you to come up with a design for me for free."
"Unless I can mark up the equipment
60%, we aren't selling anything, and that's the way it is."
"You can't make more money than
me, George. I'm the owner, and you're the salesman. Never mind
that I can't comprehend having more than one salesman like other
successful companies have."
"I don't need to be too successful.
I have other income in my attic, and my folks are loaded. So,
let's go look at new Hummers with the money from my attic business."
"Tell all new customers that we're
6 to 8 weeks out from starting their jobs. Did you bring me the
50% deposit check? Because I have a boat payment due and I want
to make double house payments this month."
"It's my house. That b_ _ _ _ .
I can't put her on the loan."
"You want to distribute to other
dealers because we are 8 weeks out from installing what you have
sold? Go ahead. But, you can never buy cheaper than me, never
! I am God in CCTV."
"Jeff and Buck will never find out
about the bait and switch I did on them after you sold the job..."
2000
"Genna, He wants my Corvette. Do
you believe that?"
"I can't wait to see George put
a tool belt on."
"No one will check my attic."
"It's my bird...."
"I don't trust anyone, anymore................."
" Hey, Genna, you want to do sales?
Have the front door re-keyed and lock George out. Let's see him
do sales now while you have all of his bids."
"He's suing me? I will never pay
George one dime. I will bury him in court."
"My new website is going to be so
much better than George's."
"I can't wait to see a FOR SALE
sign on George's house when I'm done with him."
2004
"Hey, Steve. Can I borrow a few
thousand dollars till my parents die, I'm broke, and need to pay
George what I owe him?"
The Corvette would have
been a hell of a lot cheaper.
Thank you to all of my friends and colleagues
in this industry for their continued support in confirming the
legitimacy of these quotations, for sending along important information
about Novato boy, shared their own horror stories of working for
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