Zitat des Tages von Jimmy John Liautaud:
I could sell more franchises than I'm selling right now, but we're pretty deliberate about where we're going.
I changed the rules for allowing people to buy into my system as a franchisee. I explained in detail how tough running a Jimmy John's can be. I explained the long hours, the unforgiving weather, the late nights, the weekends, and all of the sacrifices that go along with the industry. I made it tough for people to get into the system.
I choose to hunt, and I choose to fish. Everything I've done has been totally legal.
You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.
We have more franchisees that want to pay us money than we have locations to go into.
Could we grow faster? Yes. But I don't want to be the biggest. I want to be the best at what I do.
When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require the least amount of management - when they come out into the real world, I find they're very poor at getting through obstacles. And life is about solving obstacles.
Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.
I think my service is better than my food... I focus so much on the service.
God bless the U.S. court system.
As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.
I was a bit of a rebel.
I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.