摘要: |
JOHN P. Faris Jr. didn't know what he was leaping into more than 40 years ago, when he left his comfortable job as a community banker and plunged into business ownership with the purchase of Oilmen's Equipment Company. But he was smart enough to seize an opportune moment before it slipped away. "I had no idea a company like Oilmen's even existed," Faris, now semi-retired, recalled. "I had never heard of such a thing. So I went in cold turkey. Except, through my experience at the bank, I had learned to read an income statement pretty well. And once (previous owner R.E.) Littlejohn shared five years' worth of financial data, I knew it'd be a great fit." |