hewlett is here. [ applause ] >> and i also want to give a big thanks to your boss es, sedalia and natalyaeing such gracious hosts and i had a chance to meet them at the white house. thank you. [ applause ] now i know where they got their good looks from because i got to meet mom and dad and their beautiful families and i am so glad to be here, and i had a chance to learn a little bit about their story. so when their parents brought them from portugal to america almost 40 years ago no one in the family spoke a word of english, but that didn't stop their father manuel and their mother albertina from having a big dream, believing that if they worked hard they could get ahead and that even though they never had any schooling, maybe their daughters could go to college. maybe in america you could make it if you tried. that's what they believed. so they started their own construction company with a pickup truck and a wheelbarrow, and when sedalia and natalya turned 14 they began to help, cleaning tools, translating documents and they became the first in their family to go to college, and after g

louise are on salary and even though the company had taken a big financial hit, sedalia and natalya paid everyone overtime and along with each check they included a personalized note saying just how much they appreciated the efforts of the workers. and sedalia said, everybody says the biggest asset to a business is employees, some people mean it, some people don't. we actually do. so this company right here is full of folks who do right by each other. they don't try to see if they can work every angle. they don't lie about each other. they don't try to undermine each other. they understand they're supposed to be on the same team. you pitch in, you look out for one another. when somebody gets knocked down, you help them back up. you don't ask what can you get out of this because you know that success doesn't depend on one of you. it depends on all of you working together. america is no different. i see that same spirit in so many cities and towns that i visit across the country. it is alive and well all across the country. it's alive and well in this community where restaurants and busine