Price and quality are as strongly linked as the moon and the
tides. Like it or not, you and your clients make assumptions
about quality every time you price a job — assumptions
that don't always match. This was driven home to me a few
years ago when I was a carpentry foreman on a house being
built for a very difficult client. During the contract negotiations,
the only thing he cared about was how much money he
could shave from the budget. However, once the project was
underway, he not only became interested in the details, but
began inventing new ways to build things. He even inspected
the millwork