Quotes by Joe Davis

“Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.”

“Sunday, that was our fun day. After Sunday school a group of boys that lived around Purdy, would meet at my house, nearly all owned saddle horses. We would go out on the prairie, there was not very many fences then. We would rope calves and have our rodeo, riding these calves on Sunday was when I learned to ride.”

“I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.”

“He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.”

“My original projections were for us to do about $2 million the first year and maybe $4 million the second. Toyota wasnt even on the horizon when we first started planning to come to San Antonio. That was another surprise.”

“When you look at Washington, its really not that big. And its economy is completely dependent on those two companies. When theyre doing well, the whole state does all right, but when theyre down, theres nothing to fall back on.”

“Thats when I came back,”

“Once were in the building, well be able to talk to them about other service opportunities. Well build our service department first and from that well build our construction business.”

“A name change has a rippling effect on the people who have to change their address, ... The first thing we have to do is get the affected neighbors and have a meeting to let them know whats going on.”

“Theres a lot more to it than it looks.”