you get what you pay for

This is just a quick observation. I'm hearing "too expense" way too often. I contend that's a matter of perspective.
Say, for example, that you have three positions to fill. Say that you have two choices - hire three people, each at, let's say, $3 each, or hire one person who has the knowledge and energy to do the work of those three, and could be hired for under $9. Let's do the math. In addition to saving some base salary - or even if you didn't - you'd also save on unemployment tax and health insurance benefits, as you'd only have to cover one individual instead of three.
Voila! All of a sudden, that "expensive" hire become viable, even economical. That expense hire has the ability to think, learn, and contribute in ways you've not even thought of. Do you want three followers or one leader on your staff?
Now look at the big picture. Which option do you think is really your best? I know what I'd do.

reliability

re•ly\ to have confidence: trust.
re•li•able\ fit to be relied on.

I don’t know why this is such a foreign concept. Maybe I’m a fossil. I was taught personal responsibility as soon as I could form sentences more complex than See Spot Run.

If I call someone, I expect a return call. Ditto if I email them. This applies double if it’s anything to do with business. If someone says they’ll call me, I expect them to do so. Why does this never happen?

If someone tells me I’ve been offered a job, I assume they mean it. It blows me away when I get a cavalier phone call saying “never mind.” “We were just kidding. We really didn’t offer you x, y, or z.” Of course, that’s assuming I even get a phone call telling me they’ve changed their minds. I’ve had that sort of news filter back to me in rumors and innuendo. It’s crazzzzzy.

If someone asks me to do something, and I say I will, I will. Again, I am just floored if anyone should doubt that my word is not good. Does that means theirs isn’t? I think so.