If you wait until you’re fully prepared to do something, you’ll never do it because you’ll never be fully prepared.
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Very few machine tool and precision tool manufacturers started out in the business of machine tools or precision tools.

• Starrett realized the need for a better square while building his vegetable hashers.
• Pratt and Whitney started as a job-shop in a rented room.
• Bridgeport started with a hedge clipper which failed to sell due to the Great Depression.
• Brown and Sharpe began after David Brown failed to make a go of repairing clocks.

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John Paulding, machine shop owner from Southern Illinois