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Old 02-27-2008, 09:10 PM
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Default Re: Boyd Coddington

Most successful business people are not always the nicest people. If you wanna' get rich you will probably have to piss people off along the way. If Boyd were a nice guy all the time he might never get a car finished. "Nice guys finish last." Probably why he hired Wayne to crack the whip in the shop and be the designated a-hole, otherwise those guys might work at their own speed and BS a lot more during the day. (How many shops have you been in where BS dominates a lot of the work day?) Ever wait 6 to 12 months (or longer) for body and paint? Maybe if the body/paint shop owner was more of an a$$hole and less of a nice guy your car would get done sooner! Plus, the a-hole charges more because he gets your car done in a reasonable period of time! The "cheap" guy is often (not always) the guy who takes a year to get your body/paint done. You gotta' pay to play and Boyd seems to have learned that early.
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