I wrote this book for one reason: to help those who want to know more about how a small concern can operate and prosper in today"s business climate. The largest part of my work life has been spent helping the company I began in 1973 survive and grow in the metal machining and fabricating business. I speak from that perspective. At times my views may seem somewhat narrow or parochial, but this kind of focus and intensity was required of for the company to succeed. When I was working as a professional engineer consultant for an architectural/engineering firm in the early 1970s, I had the opportunity to observe many companies that our firm either worked for or from whom we were seeking to obtain contracts. I relied heavily on this part of my work experience not only to help start and keep our company going in the earlier years of its existence but also to help it continue to grow after I sold it to my managers in 2006. The principles stated in the Bible are the basis on which I"ve tried to build a successful company, and these shaped or were the most significant factors in the business decisions I"ve made. This philosophy is really no different from those of the men who started Hobby Lobby, J.C. Penney"s, Philliips Oil, Servicemaster Corp., The Lincoln Electric Company, and numerous others. I do now, and have since I started working in my chosen vocation, feel pitifully short in knowledge of my career subjects. This must be why successful and long-established company heads have often mentioned how the people who supported the leader of that company gave him or her the support he or she needed. Even a mechanical genius like R. G. LeTourneau, the father of modern earth-moving equipment, needed to have some of his engineers make drawings from the sketches he literally made in the dirt floor of his Peoria, IL, factory before putting them onto engineering drawings. This book shows readers how to start and operate a business through a people-oriented approach, rather than a systems (formulas and figures) approach. I want readers to have a "Can Do" positive attitude to follow their dreams of owning a business.