1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Shop Talk, episode three of three 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: on our mini cast. Give you just a ten to 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: twelve minute thing to listen to, and today we're going 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: to be talking about commitment or dedication or dedication and commitment, 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: but we're going to look at it through the loans 6 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: of a very special person who entered my life and 7 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: recently left this earth right after these brief messages from 8 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: our generals sponsors. All right, everybody, welcome to three of 9 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: three Shop Talk. We're going to talk about commitment or dedication. 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: I can't really decide which word best describes what this 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: shop talks about, but we'll call it commitment. And when 12 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: you think about commitment, you think about, I don't know, 13 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: being on time, a commitment of marriage, a commitment to work, 14 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: being dedicated to your word, doing what do what they're 15 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: gonna do. All of those things are true. But I 16 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:13,119 Speaker 1: think there's levels of commitment maybe or depth of dedication. 17 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: And I think when you run across people who demonstrate 18 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: a depth of dedication and a deep level of commitment, 19 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 1: that they are inspiring. One of the most inspiring people 20 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: I've ever met my wife as a guy named Sam Quinn. 21 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: Sam was a marine and after the Marines, he entered 22 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: a world in the sixties as a young black guy 23 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: looking for opportunity, looking for love, looking for work. Sam 24 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: didn't find much of that. But what he did find 25 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: was he found alcohol and he found trouble. I didn't 26 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: know Sam then. When I met Sam was in two 27 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: thousand and one, shortly after I started my business. We 28 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: were on a wing and a prayer. I didn't have 29 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: much money, and the equipment that I was installing to 30 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 1: start this fledgling business was it was wore out when 31 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: I got my hands on it, and literally I drug 32 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: old pieces of equipment out of the weeds behind large 33 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: furniture manufacturers and paid three hundred dollars cash, and frankly, 34 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: the people that owned those furniture manufacturers just glad to 35 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: see that stuff go and brought it back to my 36 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: place here in Memphis and fixed it up and started 37 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: using it. That's really the genesis of how I started 38 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: my business. And we started operations in September of two 39 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: thousand and one. And when you're running lumber in a 40 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: manufacturing process, you've got packs of lumber with board stocked 41 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: on top of each other, but you got a great 42 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: got to do things to them. So you got to 43 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: get them in single fashion, and you don't want to 44 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: sit there and hand handle every single board. So there's 45 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: a machine called a tilt toist, which tilts the pack 46 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: to a forty five degree angle, then hoist it up 47 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: in the air so that each level, each layer of 48 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: the lumber slides out onto moving chains that then take 49 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: it across the face of an inspector who looks at 50 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: the lumber and boards and inspects it as they pass 51 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: them by. And then once it passes in by, they're 52 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: then pulled back off the chain and made back into packs. 53 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: That's kind of how lumber is handled in our industry. 54 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: And we just started operations. I'd spent all the money 55 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: I'd had, I was way in debt and we needed 56 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: to generate sales, and we were operating and going and 57 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: the reality was I was grading lumber and working outside 58 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: on the yard every day. And then when three o'clock 59 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: happened and the shift shut down and the hourly guys 60 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: went home, then I spent the next six hours on 61 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: the phone calling customers buying lumber, and it was stenuous, 62 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: and one Friday, our tilt toys broke and that sounds 63 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: like a bad thing, but when your tilt toys breaks 64 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: and you're already broke and you've got great revenue the 65 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: next week by making lumber and shipping lumber, and you 66 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: can't do it. You have to get that thing running. 67 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: And so my maintenance manager, my yard manager, and I 68 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: knew that this was going to be an all weekend deal. 69 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 1: We saw the sun rise and set three times before 70 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: we ever went home. We had to basically take the 71 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: entire till toys apart with torches, remove chain, fixed brockets, 72 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 1: rewire a motor, and put it all back together. And 73 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: it's very heavy industrial stuff. And about five point thirty 74 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: that Friday evening we started working. In about six point fifteen, 75 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: I looked up and there's this guy, Sam Quinn, a 76 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: guy hired only a month and a half early earlier 77 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: to pull lumber. Six dollars and seventy five cent an hour, guy, 78 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: just manual labor. And he walks in and he picks 79 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: up a ball pen hammer and starts heading to the 80 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: other side, and I was like, oh, Sam, what are 81 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: you doing? He said, well, we need to get this 82 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: Toieltys running so we can run Monday, and we can 83 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: make money. And I'm like saying, yeah, you're right, but 84 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: I can hardly afford to pay you forty hours. I 85 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: can't pay you to be here, and I sure say, 86 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: can't afford time and a half. And he looked at 87 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,239 Speaker 1: me and said, I hadn't been a part of anything 88 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: since the United States Marine Corps, and I feel a 89 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: part of this company. I don't want you to pay me, 90 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: but I ain't going home either. I'm not going to 91 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: let you guys work and me watch. And he went 92 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: to work. We slept on the floor or the deck 93 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: when I say slept, a couple hours covered in torch, soot, 94 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: hydraulic oil, grease, filth, sawdust. Woke up, Lisa brought some biscuits, 95 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: and we worked all that Saturday, and then we worked 96 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: all that Sunday, and literally Monday morning, about five point 97 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, we finished and finally got that 98 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: stupid thing put back together in operational thirty minutes before 99 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: the line crew showed up start running again. Monday. None 100 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 1: of us went home, none of us had a shower, 101 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: and Sam did all that with us for nothing, And then, 102 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: to my absolute shock, when the line turned on, Sam 103 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: came out of the bathroom after cleaning himself up and 104 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: pulled the lumber for eight hours behind that chain to 105 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: hit his Monday shift before he went home Tuesday night. 106 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: Over the course of that weekend, and you got nothing 107 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: else to do, you learn a lot about one another. 108 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: And I found out about Sam's past, and I found 109 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: out he had no major violent issues with the law, 110 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: but lots of DUIs and things he hadn't paid, and 111 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: really became systemized, institutionalized like many are that come from 112 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: where Sam comes from. Because you got to have a 113 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: car to go to work. But if you can't afford 114 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: a driver's license, you get pulled over, you don't have 115 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: a driver's license, get a ticket, you can't afford to 116 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: pay for the ticket. If it's between paying the ticket 117 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: or putting gas in your car and paying the light bill, 118 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: you don't pay the ticket. Then you get a warrant. 119 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: Then the county starts putting interest on top of your 120 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,559 Speaker 1: ticket and penalties, and what was a forty dollars ticket 121 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: becomes a thousand dollars ticket, and then there's a warrant 122 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: out for your arrest. Then you're arrested, then you got 123 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: a post bail. It's a never ending downward vacuum, spiral 124 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: of misery that people find themselves in. And I'm not 125 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: excusing it, but it's just the reality of what happens 126 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: to a lot of a lot of poor folks. And 127 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: that was Sam's world. And he told me about it, 128 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: and I told him, I said, Sam, you know you 129 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: got to take care of you responsibilities. I kind of get 130 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: why you ended up where you are, but if I 131 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 1: help you out and we find a way to get 132 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: all this cleaned up and straight, he looked at me 133 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: and eyes he said, I'll never go back. He was 134 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: living at Lighthouse Ministries, which is a daily rented room 135 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: for eight hours a night thing. He literally was almost homeless. 136 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: The next two and a half years. We worked with attorneys, 137 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: We worked with all kinds of people to clear his record, 138 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: pay his fines which I loaned the money for, and 139 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: he paid me back, and get himself straight. Then his girlfriend, Regina, 140 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: he married and he adopted her children because he believed, 141 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: if you're going to commit to a woman, you need 142 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: to commit to the children and they don't need to 143 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: be living in the same house. And he actually got 144 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,600 Speaker 1: a marriage license, got married, and adopted the kids as 145 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: his own and then I'll never forget the pride on 146 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: his face when he'd saved himself thirty five hundred dollars 147 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: to put a down payment on a home which he 148 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: bought for his wife and his children. Over the course 149 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: of time of the company, he went from that low 150 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: level common labor job and ended up being a manager 151 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: on the yard at my company. There was no prouder 152 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: human being on the face of the planet than Sam 153 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: Quinn because what he found out was this life that 154 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: he'd screwed completely up. He was able to fix with 155 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 1: commitment and dedication. Commitment to a wife, commitment to his bills, 156 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: commitment to his children, commitment to his job, dedication to 157 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: those things. And it changed his life, and it changed 158 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: the life of his wife, and it changed the life 159 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: of his children. But more importantly, not more importantly, but 160 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: maybe with greater perspective for me, it changed mine. I 161 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: watched a formally homeless, alcoholic drug using person living at 162 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: Lighthouse Ministries with half a chance to be committed and 163 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: dedicated to something better become my friend. There was never 164 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 1: a time that this company was dealing with difficulties, the 165 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: same one the first in line to voluntary out. There 166 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: was never a time that I didn't have a need 167 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: that Sam wasn't the first to volunteer to help. He 168 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: was so ultimately committed as a friend and an employee 169 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: and a father and a manager that he inspired everybody 170 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 1: at this company and me. About two years ago, Sam 171 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: got diagnosed with a really terrible form of cancer. And 172 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: when he told me about it, he looked me dead 173 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: in eyes and he said, I don't think I can 174 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: beat it. I'm going to try to extend my life 175 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: as long as I can. And he said, I'm paying 176 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: for some of the things I did when I was young, 177 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: And he told me there were times he sniffed paint, 178 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: and there were times that he drank rubbing alcohol, and 179 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: there were things he did to his body that his 180 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:00,599 Speaker 1: body was now no longer to off and he was 181 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: paying for. But he he wasn't a victim to it. 182 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: He didn't even gripe about it. He kind of said, 183 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: I'm a man. I made those decisions and now I'm 184 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: paying for them. And he just looked me dead in 185 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: the eyes and he said, Bill, just no, I want 186 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: to work. I don't want to miss a day. And 187 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: I'm like, Sam, you got cancer, I mean, come on, 188 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: and He's just with this steely look in his face, 189 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: said I'm going to deal with it, but don't not 190 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 1: let me run my line, don't let let me work. 191 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: It was his dedication and commitment to work and the 192 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: dedication commitment of the business and the people in the 193 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: business to him that changed his life, and that was 194 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: what he cared about most, even when he was dying 195 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: of cancer. This man would schedule his treatments early in 196 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: the morning and would show up in the Debta summer 197 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: working on a production line in a lumberyard with dust 198 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: and noise and loud stuff, and be at work thirty 199 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: minutes after treatment treatment that most people would go home 200 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: and lay in bed for two or three days, and 201 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: this guy would come and stand on his feet for 202 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: eight hours in the hot sun or the cold, brutal 203 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: winters in this unforgiving atmosphere that is a lumber mill 204 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: and manage his people. I cannot tell you the depth 205 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: of the inspiration that people had knowing that that's what 206 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: Sam was doing. See, it was not just his commitment 207 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: dedication the company that mattered, but it was it was 208 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:51,719 Speaker 1: the commitment and dedication that we showed to him. It 209 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: changed lives. It changed perceptions, and it changed me. About 210 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 1: five months ago, I was pulling onto the yard and 211 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: I saw Sam coming across the yard with some of 212 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: his materials, and oh my god, he could barely walk. 213 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,719 Speaker 1: Sam was not a tall or big man, but he 214 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: was a chiseled guy. And by this time his clothes 215 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: were hanging off of him. You could see all the 216 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: bones and veins in his neck and his clavicle through 217 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 1: his T shirt. And he was in pain. And I said, Sam, 218 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: how you doing. I'm good, boss, Sam, how you doing? 219 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: He looked at me dead and as he said, I'm hurting. 220 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: And I said, Sam, there has been no more committed, 221 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: dedicated human being that I've ever seen to anything in 222 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: my entire life. Why don't you give yourself a break 223 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: and take a rest? And he said, I'll be fine. 224 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: He died three days later. His dying days were walking 225 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: around a lumberyard. Because he was dedicated and committed to 226 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: what was dedicated and committed to him and changed his life, 227 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: and in doing so, he changed the lives of everybody 228 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: around him. He remains an inspiration. He's been gone now 229 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: for months, but people still call the line that he 230 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: worked on. Sam's line problems come up round the yard 231 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: and some of the other managers and other employees will 232 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: immediately say, well, what would Sam have done? Sam Quinn 233 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: has an everlasting legacy on my company, on my children, 234 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: on my employees, and on me because of what a 235 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: depth of commitment and dedication meant in his life and 236 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: what it meant to the lives of those around them 237 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: who experienced that depth of commitment and dedication. So when 238 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: you think about committing to something in the future, I 239 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: hope you might think about Sam Quinn. It's more than 240 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: being on time. It's more than saying yes I will. 241 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: It's more than just being a person of your word. 242 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:31,680 Speaker 1: True commitment and true dedication inspires and it changes the 243 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: perceptions of people around you and ultimately will change your 244 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: own life. So when you commit or dedicate something, do 245 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: it like Sam would do. I'm Bill Courtney. I'll see 246 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: you next week.