Top 62 Quotes by Fred DeLuca

Most of the people we sign on as development agents commit to goals they don't believe are possible.

We have always had many more franchisee candidates than available locations.

When we first started the company, I didn't have any thoughts of franchising. We just had company-owned stores.

We find that no matter what country we're in, if we hit the right economic notes and appeal to the mass market, we're able to build the business very, very rapidly.

In 1974, we began franchising. We didn't have any big thought process except that, 'OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.'

Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget.

If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.

The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right.