Last year, tile industry giant Gary Rodebush entered retirement after more than 50 years in the industry. He started out as a truck driver for Superior Tile & Stone in the Bay Area and worked his way up through the ranks. Rodebush credits advice from Abraham Lincoln for his success, “A capacity, and taste, for read- ing, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by oth- ers. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved prob- lems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for success- Gary Rodebush, Superior Tile & Stone, hangs up his trowel after more than 50 years in the industry By Terryn Rutford, Social Structure Marketing 100 TileLetter | July 2017