We asked our Facebook and Instagram followers the above question. Here are some responses:
Jeanette Martin
Grabbing every client possible when I should have been more selective in my early career.
David Massingale
I should have started my business sooner.
Mike Lantz
I should have done more private jobs and not as many builder jobs, and gotten half down and weekends off.
Brad Neubert
To have saved 30 percent of each job I have ever done for the past 23 years and be retired by now, fishing and hunting on the property that I should have bought with 40 percent of what I made, and to have lived off of the remaining 30 percent over the years. Hindsight is 20/20, though.
Warren Kennedy
Not making more trade contacts in my early years of flooring.
Rodger Hobson
I regret not charging more for extreme restorations.
Lou LiCausi
Not being a big business. I'm a two-man team—that's a mistake. I do love what I do.
Daniel Reddy
Taking business classes—or any type of business education—before starting a business.
Brett Hall
Instead of buying more trucks and more equipment and borrowing more money, I should have saved a big pile of cash and grown slowly out of the profits.
Richard Farrell
I wouldn't have waited too long to invoice certain customers.
Joe Kenney
I wish I would have worn ear plugs from the beginning.
Dave Habib
I would have started attending training seminars much sooner; there's always something to learn when you get together with peers. I love the team atmosphere with all wood floor guys and gals!
Adam Christiansen
Not getting into sand and finish soon enough.
Sinh Nguyen
Not taking a concrete prep class sooner.
Dave Boucher
I should have bought a dump truck, loader and excavator. They always have money in the budget for the site work.
David Runyon
Wearing proper PPE from the start. All the other gripes aside, my knees, ears and back would appreciate it these days.
