Debbi Fields Quotes
The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.
Fields, Debbi, and Alan Furst. One Smart Cookie: How a Housewife's Chocolate Chip Recipe Turned into a Multimillion-Dollar Business. Simon and Schuster, 1987.
In contrast to the American expansion where individuals went west to settle, the Canadian experience was directed by a central mercantile enterprise for whom the Indians trapped furs and bought merchandise. The Company wanted the Indians to be treated like valuable customers, not competitors for land and territory.
Debbi Fields is the founder and spokesperson of Mrs. Fields Bakeries. Additionally, she has written several cookbooks and makes cookies. A resident of Memphis, Tennessee for over 16 years since she re-married in 1997, she moved to Nashville in 2014. Her late husband, Michael David Rose, was the former CEO/Chairman of Holiday Corp. and Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. He died of cancer on April 2, 2017, at the age of 75.