Red Adair Quotes

• If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

  Red Adair

  Jobs, Thinking, Design

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• The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.

  Red Adair

  Hiring, Expensive

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• Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

  Red Adair

  Jobs, Doors, May

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• I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.

  Red Adair

  Thinking, Texas, World

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• If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

  Red Adair

  Thinking, Trying, Hiring

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• I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

  Red Adair

  Fire, Air, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

  Red Adair

  Mean, Men, Long

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• It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

  Red Adair

  Smile, Hurt, Scare

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

  Red Adair

  Mistake, Fire, Bombs

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• I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

  Red Adair

  Home, Years, Half

  "Oil Well Firefighter Adair Dies" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2004.

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• I’ve done made a deal with the devil.

  Red Adair

  Devil, Done, Made

  "Troubleshooter Red Adair dies, aged 89" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2004.

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