By Lini S. Kadaba | The Philidelphia Inquirer
Every other Monday, Robert “Bob” I. Toll visits the Horsham headquarters of the eponymous home-building company he started with his brother, Bruce, 52 years ago, and takes inventory.
No matter that the 78-year-old stepped down as executive chairman last year and makes his home primarily in Miami Beach. Toll, chairman emeritus, religiously reviews the prior week’s sales of Toll Bros. communities — 300-plus at the moment — and, based on what he hears, offers advice on how to keep numbers robust. When he’s not there in person, he calls in.
“I don’t miss any deal,” he said one autumn Monday from his spacious office, the walls covered with a lifetime of family photos. “It starts with the same basics as it started with in ’67.”
