This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Well, to quote the late, great Joe E. Brown: "Zowee." That doesn't make a great deal of sense, I know, but it was the first thing that popped into my poor little head when I read your post. Don't know what else I COULD say. Zowee! Alan -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of KENNETH FINLAYSON Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:28 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Philosophy You said "...our primary reason for existance is not to make money." To which I say, with respect, bullmuffins. The primary function of any business is to make a profit. The primary purpose of any employment is to make money. Can we do that with integrity and honesty? Absolutely. But I'm not in business to be noble: it's my livelyhood. This is NOT a personal critisiscm of you or your operating philosophy, but making money is a good thing. Hi Alan: My philosophy is something like the following. If you are an artist, and paint oil paintings, you sell them - not to make money, but for the sake of the art. Sometimes you make it big. Most of the time you suffer. Do you call this a business? I don't. I am an artist of sound. Every tuning is like selling an oil painting. The primary purpose of any service is to serve the public. The drudgery of having money, survival, employment, a new car, income tax, are only sidelines - that take up far too much of my time, and I wish I didn't have to bother with it. Can we do it without honesty and integrity? Absolutely not. Can we tune six pianos a day and put the money in the bank? Absolutely not. Why? We must think of nobler things if we are to survive. It is not for naught piano tuning is deemed 'the noblest of trades.' Kenny Finlayson, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/64/b0/83/09/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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