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I'd say with custom work it would show a great deal of lack of faith in the client which means you either need a better relationship with the client or no relationship at all.>
>You took the words right out of my mouth <s>. In the last 11 years, the only time I have ever been ripped off was when I had a contract. All my other work has been done on a handshake. I have also fired clients who whinged and complained about invoices because I do not want clients who do not believe that they are getting excellent value for the money they are spending.
You and I have always been on the same page on this. I want clients where we pray for each other's good health and prosperity and we know we are each better for knowing and working with the other.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
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