Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" If the people buying the pizza are happy, they'll probably buy the pizza again. "
John Schnatter
Pizza
Buying
Buy
Related Quotes:
" The board gets upset because I won't take a raise, but I've got plenty of money. "
John Schnatter
Raise
Upset
Take
" Find something you love to do. Work it to the bone. And you'll be successful. "
John Schnatter
Bone
Work
Successful
" I buried my dad on a Thursday and showed up for work on Friday. "
John Schnatter
Friday
Up
Thursday
" Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money. "
John Schnatter
Quality
Everybody
Money
" When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative. "
John Schnatter
Negative
Start
Stay
" It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick's Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, 'Dad, I can fix it.' It was the most natural thing I'd ever done. It just made sense to me. "
John Schnatter
Week
Run
Me
" If you are a success, you can take care of people; you can give a lot to your community. "
John Schnatter
Community
People
Success
" I have a goal of being the No.1 pizza company in the world. "
John Schnatter
Pizza
Goal
Company
" Daddy was fun-loving and lighthearted - he lived life to the fullest and was not scared to take a risk. "
John Schnatter
Scared
Take
Risk
" I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted. "
John Schnatter
Good
Love
Either
" In 1991, I didn't have $2,000 to go on vacation. "
John Schnatter
Go
Vacation
" I just like building stuff. "
John Schnatter
Just
Building
Stuff
" I am the American Dream. "
John Schnatter
I Am
American
American Dream
" You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship. "
John Schnatter
Government
Jam
Where
" I found something I loved to do when I was 15 - making pizzas. "
John Schnatter
Loved
Found
Something
" Regardless of what the minimum wage is, you really have the market wage. And if we're not taking care of our people, then we're going to lose good talent, at every level. "
John Schnatter
Good
People
Care
" Many in the media reported that I said Papa John's is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that. "
John Schnatter
Said
Jobs
Media
" I didn't like the bar business. "
John Schnatter
Business
Bar
Like
" Pizza's really nutritious; it's good for you. You can't sit down and eat a whole carton of eggs, and you can't sit down and eat a whole pizza. "
John Schnatter
Pizza
Good
Down
" With a head coach, you make a mistake and learn. With a king, you make a mistake and get your head bitten off. "
John Schnatter
Coach
You
Mistake
" I love my business. I love my employees. "
John Schnatter
Employees
Love
I Love
" In school, I always had to work harder than others. "
John Schnatter
Than
Always
Had
" The original goal for Papa John's was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date. "
John Schnatter
Year
Original
Date
" I realized the world spins without me having to spin it. "
John Schnatter
Having
Me
Spin
" I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me. "
John Schnatter
Law
School
Me
" I had this dream of starting a pizza business since college. I came up with the name, menu, and recipes back then. "
John Schnatter
Dream
Business
College
" I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.' "
John Schnatter
Good
You
Think
" I don't condone racism. I don't condone prejudice. "
John Schnatter
Prejudice
Condone
Racism
" Sales went crazy when we made the pizza perfect. "
John Schnatter
Sales
Crazy
Made
" Companies like Papa John's are largely a collection of small independent businesses. "
John Schnatter
Small
Collection
Independent