Fred DeLuca Quotes
In the U.S. and Canada, we have one store for every 12,000 people.
Daley, Jason. "Subway Co-Founder Fred DeLuca on Growth and Keeping Things Simple." Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur Media, 23 May 2013.
This was written just before Japan annexed Korea. See {613106}. It is true that Australia with vast land areas at the time was very racist and would only admit whites. America allowed some Asian immigration but limited it severely. After Japan’s defeat in WWII they solved their problem very easily. They practiced birth control and in the early 21st century Japan had a negative population growth. After World War II, there was a huge international emphasis on birth control and family planning as WWII in Asia was in part the result of overpopulation in Japan.
The French were at the time considered the major barrier to growth and development of the colonies.
As a result of this report, IBM did not acquire the Xerox technology. Xerox went on to place 600,000 units of the machine that Arthur D. Little assessed would be only 5,000. Until IBM pulled out of their Partnership with Microsoft for the development of Windows, the failure to deploy the Xerox process was the largest mistake they had made. It shows that even the best of companies make large errors.
This is a counter-intuitive fact which surprises almost everyone. Note that he does not claim that the entire world population could all live in New York, but the enormous amount of indoor space is clearly illustrated by the fact that all could fit in to the city.
Frederick Adrian DeLuca was an Italian-American businessman and co-founder of the Subway franchise of sandwich shops.