“Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system’s reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.”

Luck is a dividend of sweat.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.

We have an obligation to give something back to the community that gives so much to us.

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn’t long before I set up a lemonade stand.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

That’s the name of the game. Pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we’ve lost the ball game.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct – a byproduct of achievement.

In business for yourself, but not by yourself.

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

The challenge of the retail business is the human condition.

Storytelling is the game. It’s what we all do. It’s why Nike is Nike, it’s why Apple is Apple, it’s why Walt Disney built Disney World and it’s why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

If people say you shouldn’t pursue business around your passion they are haters. Don’t believe them.

We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.

Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business, and having a high-performing body.

Don’t worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you’re passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.