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Greatest Hits #5 - The 1-800-GOT-JUNK Story

My First Million

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You Have to Suffer to Make This Work

When you had to reset and hire the next batch of people, you obviously were being very conscious of who you wanted to bring in. If i think of what was wrong at that point in 19 94, when i fired all 11, was i just wasn't enjoying working with those people. They weren't the happy, smili people i envisioned. And so my lipmis was spend a day in the trucks with them, driving around. Did i have fun? Were they smilig and happy with customers? Do they love life verses complaining about everything that happens to them? That's who i'm going to hire. Because the best indicator of future result as previous result is someone who has

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