I heard those words many years ago from a roofing contractor and they stuck with me like the garlic in my own homemade hommous. The phrase is taken out of context: He was repeating what he had heard from a contractor from another trade, not issuing a statement of policy. Not out of context, however, was the underlying truth that it is difficult and actually takes some work to operate completely “clean” in the contracting business. “Cheating,” on the other hand, is easy.