Fred DeLuca Quotes

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.

The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.

Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product into the market, it's a marketing problem. You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.

I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.

I just think that when you're coming out with a new product, you're gonna be criticized.

With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it.

I really loved traveling the U.S. and seeing regional differences within the same country and how the same ingredients are used in very different ways. I love how the 'old guard' of cuisine are still pioneering so much of the direction of food today.

As we looked at the server market, we know very well that the data-center market takes time to ramp with any new product.

When we opened our office in Santa Ana, California, in 2016, I could not have envisioned this level of growth, although I always knew our products would be well received by customers in North America.

When I'm in L.A., I have salads, sandwiches, and soups all the time. Eating in New York, I feel like I have to have pizza and bagels while I'm here!

When I first heard hip-hop, in 1976, there were maybe only 500 people that could do it.

I purposely got involved in the American market, as I'm really interested in it. I find the way they do marketing there really cool.

I was working in email in the early days in the late '80s, and people weren't using electronic communications at all in the way we take for granted today.

Chipotle was going to incorporate all the things I had learned at the Culinary Institute and Stars and really elevate typical fast food.

Product 1' was really my introduction into the game.

There are many people who think we had the first-mover advantage. But actually, when Uber came to India, Ola was doing only 2,000 rides per day. We had less than half a million dollars of funding.

I understand the highs and lows of building a global business from the ground and taking that initial product idea all the way to the market.

I'm from the North. We didn't have Chick-fil-A.

For a lot of fans from the early days, they probably had issues they were A-ha fans, because it probably wasn't 'cool.'

I want to go into the English market, all the way.

I've been looking for an opportunity to break into the Chinese market due to its devoted and passionate audience and have found the perfect partner in Cristal Pictures.