What saying or quote sticks with you since you were a newbie?

Stuart Rogers

"Cut to fit, draw to match, paint to cover."

BCook

Weather you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

ratio

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."

"I might be slow, but I ain't cheap!"

One of my favorites: "uh, oh."

"Not all customers need to be our customers." Wish the office heard this a little more often.

Pumpguy

Translation?……….

ratio

https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1837394#Comment_1837394

Actually heard from our old dispatcher: "I remember these guys from ${last_company}. They never paid their bills."

Or my favorite: "Why haven't we made any money on any of our jobs for ${high_maintenance_outfit}? Let's lowball them so we get more of their jobs."

Tim McElwain

Measure twice - cut once!

ratio

Huh. I've always heard it as "Measure once - cut twice. Order more lumber."

Pumpguy

I was out on a job once with one of our senior technicians. We happened to look over at a fabricated angle iron support structure, and one of the X brace angles didn't meet the vertical. The cut off end just hung out there in the air.

His reaction: "Cut it off 3 times, its still too short". That was in 1970 and I still chuckle when I think about it.