Randalisms

Peter Principle In Construction - Promoting a journeyman to Project Manager or working foreman without formal training. Leads to Construction Train Wrecks.

People Dependent Vs. Process Dependent - Construction contractors who insist on getting control of people, employees, vendors, suppliers and stakeholders are like Sisyphus doomed to "Push a heavy rock up a hill for all eternity or until the go out of business. Construction contractors who are process dependent are more likely to enjoy the finer things of life that money and freedom can buy.

People Who Do The Hard Work of developing systems, processes, and enforcing them gets the money

Profit - Cash is a fact and profit is an opinion. One will put a roof over your head, clothes on your body and groceries on the table. The other one will impress your banker. Keep your priorities straight.

Real Money - In Construction the real money is made in the office; not in the field.

Rich - Income exceeds outgo

Right Vs. Rich - Right Vs. Rich is all about giving your customer or client what they want, not what you think is best

ROI - Risk Of Incarceration because of bad bookeeping

Salesperson - Amateur sorter

Shoe Salesman Contractor - Someone skilled in servicing, repairing and being a handyman for houses, commercial buildings and other structures

Signer - Someone other than the business owners with access to your bank account to pay bills or make tax payments....NEVER EVER A GOOD IDEA because everyone runs short of cash and the temptation to "Borrow" with the "Intention" of putting it back is having a high calorie snack with the intention of exercising later to get rid of it!

Simple Plans - Drawings showing what the finished product would look like if it were built in Heaven.

Sorter - Professional Rain Maker

Spending Vs. Investing - Poor contractors spend money and wealthy contractors invest money. Why spend money on bad bookeeping when you can invest money on professional contractors bookkeeping services and in the process learn how to increase sales and profits for years to come. Don't just spend money of fuel for your equipment and vehicles understand when it makes financial sense to replace them.

Strike - An effort to increase egg production by strangling the chicken

Success - Is a few simple disciplines practiced everyday

Success Vs Failure - Success is a few simple disciplines practiced everyday. Failure is a few simple errors repeated every day

The Universe Is Always In Balance - Belief or non-belief in a Higher Power will not change this fact. Know that you are cared for and loved and that you will never get more good or bad stuff than you can handle. If someone does you wrong do not try to get even. Forgive them for your sake, forget them and move on. Know The Universe Is Always In Balance and deals with ALL injustices in Its own way, in Its own time. Do not get in the way of someone else's punishment.

TSheets.Com - A Time Card Calculator That Actually Works in construction and is one of the foundations of Job Costing.

Threads of Success - There Are Several Threads of Success Weaved Into The Fabric of Wealthy Contractors Lives That Any Contractor Who Understands Them And Implements Them Can Enjoy Similar Success

Warranty Work - The never-ending project

We Have Met The Enemy, He Is Us - Success in business is like training for the Olympics. You are alone with your thoughts and a body that initially will resist the idea of Practice-Drill-Rehearse because "Good is the enemy of Great." It takes roughly six months to good at something; however, it takes discipline and years or hard work to become great. When a bookkeeper says they have ten years experience ask what was the last bookkeeping class, or seminar they attended. If they say none. They have six months experience twenty times.

Wealth - Not working because you have enough cash to live the rest of your life

Wealth Prevention Tool - Bad Bookkeeper who does everything possible to make certain business owners a paid the same or less than the Bad Bookkeeper.

World Of What Is - We live in a world of what is, not what should be

You Alone Stand Guard At The Portals Of Your Mind - Your most important asset and the only thing that can make you rich, poor, wealth, destitute, happy or sad. It is all within your grasp if you simply stand guard and make certain that you only allow that which you want to manifest in your life enter your mind and your deepest innermost thoughts and block everything else out.

You Are Today - The  sum total of all the books you have read and the people you have met and spent time with.

You Can Be Right Or Rich, Pick One - You cannot be both. You pick one on purpose or by default. The more you want to right the less you will be rich and the reverse is true.