Fred DeLuca Quotes

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I'd then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

I had always wanted to start a company, ever since I was very young.

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

I'm trying to open a Chopper shop this year.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now.

There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

I want to start a Dunkin' Donuts in Los Angeles. I already have the perfect location picked out. It would be the old Tower Records buildings on Sunset.

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.