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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.
Fred DeLuca
Good
You
Business
Problem
Think
Everything
Could
Wrong
Wrong Place
Place
Really
Your
Right
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.
Fred DeLuca
Business
Seen
Enormous
Increases
Everyone
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Wage
Started
Basically
Number
It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.
Fred DeLuca
Business
People
Tough
Small
Small Business
Get
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?
Fred DeLuca
Business
Will
Mistakes
Big
Everybody
Correct
Direction
Through
Make
Learn
How
Question
Quickly
Get
Goes
Big Question
Who
Fast
I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'
Fred DeLuca
Saying
Good
You
Business
People
Sometimes
Looking
Think
Hey
Entertaining
About
Someone
Could
Shark
Course
Tank
Encouraged
Very
Get
Going
Might
Help
Help People
Actually
Start
Watch
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.
Fred DeLuca
Business
Matter
Country
Build
Market
Rapidly
Find
Able
Economic
Mass
Mass Market
Very
Hit
Notes
Appeal
Right
After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.
Fred DeLuca
Business
Learning
Important
Year
Every
Extremely
Through
New
Identifying
Still
Go
Years
After
Strategies
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.
Fred DeLuca
Work
Business
Opportunity
First
Think
Run
Thousands
About
Point
Point Of View
Had
New
Like
Terrific
Very
Brand
Train
Brand New
Literally
Really
Successfully
View
Company
We're very much in the people business in that there are two important groups you have to work with: customers and employees.
Fred DeLuca
Work
You
Business
People
Employees
Important
Very
Customers
Much
Groups
Two
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.
Fred DeLuca
Business
People
Feeling
Else
Some
Cash
Something
Something Else
Point
Never
Had
Know
Lot
Just
Decide
Reason
Careers
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.
Fred DeLuca
Work
You
Business
People
King
Be Careful
About
More
Casual
Nobody
Know
Knows
Go
Established
Customer
Customers
Realize
Really
Your
Hard
Who
Businesses
Careful
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.
Fred DeLuca
Buy
Business
Change
Reality
Will
Other
Some
Pretty
Drink
Most
Likely
Still
Salads
Person
Same
After
Sandwich
Much
Next
Thing
Fundamentally
Soft
I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.
Fred DeLuca
Family
Business
Think
Dreamt
No-One
Going
Ever
You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget.
Fred DeLuca
You
Business
Budget
Much
Really
Start
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.
Fred Haise
Business
Pilot
Military
Aircraft
Part
Unusual
Test
Test Pilot
Handling
Situations
Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.
Fred Thompson
Business
Risk
Open
Nobody
Site
Being
Wants
Sued
Near
With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and commonsense regulatory processes on non-federal lands - the U.S. government should no longer be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on risky, exotic energy projects.
Fred Upton
Government
Business
Thanks
Energy
Taxpayer
Resources
Spending
Projects
Risky
Vast
Longer
New
Like
Proven
Dollars
Discovery
Exotic
North
North American
American
Processes
Commonsense
Lands
Should
Regulatory
Application
Technologies
I try to shy away from playing cranky people, but if it's just a funny next-door neighbor or business man, I'll say, 'Sure, why not?'
Fred Willard
Funny
Man
Business
People
Try
Say
Neighbor
Sure
Just
Cranky
Next-Door Neighbor
Why
Away
Why Not
Playing
Shy
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
Fred Wilson
You
Business
Communication
Management
Feedback
Building
Scale
Possible
Systems
Investing
Efficiently
Processes
Means
Team
Routines
So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.
Fred Wilson
Business
Sheep
Herd
Recipe
Folks
Purchasing
Follow
Investments
Investors
Highly
Disaster
Venture
Venture Capital
Just
Want
Capital
Many
Momentum
Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.
Fred Wilson
Finance
Great
You
Business
Quality
Will
First
Other
Market
Way
Financing
Something
Also
Great Way
Equity
Fit
Than
Improve
Want
Customer
Customers
Product
Your
Help
Reasons
Many
I think in some ways I'm quite lucky to be living in London, there's this certain separation from the movie business. In that way, it's been quite easy to separate acting and going back to a normal life.
Freddie Highmore
Life
Business
Separation
Living
Think
Back
Way
Ways
Easy
London
Some
Been
Normal
Normal Life
Going
Quite
Movie
Movie Business
Certain
Separate
Acting
Lucky
We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.
Freddie Wong
Business
Creative
World
Pay
Types
Our
Sides
Our World
Criteria
Ourselves
Must
Constantly
Both
Both Sides
How
Fit
Done
Going
Asking
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
Frederick Soddy
Today
Great
Business
Money
Profit
Provided
Exists
Banking
Capital
Whole
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.
Frederick W. Smith
Buy
Time
Business
People
Internet
Our
Paper
Part
Mississippi
Quantity
Without
Always
Been
Regard
Biggest
Place
Moving
Things
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
Frederick W. Smith
Business
Beginning
Out
Steadily
Arena
Gotten
Governments
Century
Then
Transportation
International
Acts
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