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All Quotes by author - Fred DeLuca

" A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing. "

" After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important. "

" A lot of stuff happens daily when you're running a company like Subway. If you get too happy about some things or too unhappy about others, you get worn out. It's best if you can pace yourself a little bit more. "

" Back in the early days of international, everybody wanted to customize the menu for every place. "

" Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets. "

" Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy. "

" By and large, we're a bread-eating culture. People like sandwiches. We don't really over-think that one. "

" 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. "

" Everybody eats three times a day; it's only a question of where they choose to eat. The longer-term trends are people eat out more often. "

" Everybody who goes through the business will make mistakes. The big question is how big will the mistakes be? How fast will they learn from the mistakes, and how quickly will they get the business in the correct direction? "

" Every time I come across learning items of interest, I'll send distribution voice mail to the appropriate group in the organization. "

" For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled. "

" From my point of view, my job is just to work hard for our franchisees, so they can maintain the position they're in, and to grow market share. "

" From my point of view, what I really like, what I think is really terrific about my work, is that the company's had the opportunity to train literally thousands and thousands of brand new franchisees to successfully run their very first business. "

" Higher unemployment generally bodes well for franchising. People are looking for a new opportunity, and people who have jobs are a little less confident they'll always have a job. "

" How you handle the obstacles has a big impact on how you do. If you give up, then you obviously don't get there, but if you're persistent, and you keep thinking of new ways to approach the business, you're more likely to reach your goal. "

" I don't have any interest in cashing out or leaving the business or doing something else. I just love Subway, and I want to keep focusing on the company for the benefit of all our franchise owners. So I'm kind of like married to the job. "

" I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires. "

" I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business. "

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

" If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on. "

" If someone wants to eat healthy, they can do that and get the sandwich exactly right. I'm so pleased we're able to influence so many people and their eating habits. "

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

" If you treat people nicely, and you allow them to fulfill a role that is satisfying for them, they'll accomplish a lot, and they'll enjoy their work. "

" I guess that's one of the benefits of being sick. Your wife lets you have a big-screen TV in the living room. "

" I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling. "

" I made the first sandwich before entering college. "

" 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.' "

" In a typical situation, it's going to take pretty close to a year to get your location in, get your permits, and then get open. "

" In some markets, we don't have a lot of room to expand. We've done studies of store density and essentially found our more dense markets have more than one store per 15,000 people. "

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