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" Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it. "

" Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'd taken all the money from the register, we couldn't have paid an employee, much less the food or the rent or all that. It could have been a turning point. We could have given up. "

" 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. "

" There's huge access to information. If you need to learn something, you can go on the Internet and learn very quickly. You can reach across miles and miles to find companies that can assist you. "

" 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. "

" We have salads, some other beverages. But in reality, it's still fundamentally the same business. The most likely thing the next person will buy is a sandwich and a soft drink. After a half-century of glacial change, we're still pretty much the same business. "

" You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis. "

" To a large extent, we're working hard to fulfill the consumer demand for Subway sandwiches. "

" I was able to solve enough big problems along the way that the sheriff didn't come along and put the 'bankruptcy' sign up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good. "

" You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We're very much in the people business in that there are two important groups you have to work with: customers and employees. "

" There may be a perception that, with franchises, they're all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that's not true. We've always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise - slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to everyone in the business. "