Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Quality survives.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.

I wanted to be consistent in my career and not have an off year. I wanted to play well and be on top of things.

Jimmy John's is what it is. We strive for a consistent experience that is consistently good.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

It's extremely hard work keeping fresh.

You need to perform consistently, and if you're raising the standard, you have to stand by it. You have to keep on doing well.

Chipotle never lets me down. I feel like, in the middle of nowhere, Chipotle is still there, and my burrito bowl is still going to sustain me. So Chipotle, for convenience and reliability.

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.

Career wise, consistency is one of the keys to longevity. When you are consistent people know what they are going to get, and that's the foundation for having a long career.

I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.

One of the pivotal moments for me was realizing that our 'food with integrity' approach at Chipotle was satisfying my passion. That's about bringing the best quality, sustainably-raised ingredients to everyone: chicken without antibiotics; beef without hormones. These ingredients were only available in high-end restaurants, not mainstream places.

Of course it's not a normal thing to show a good performance every time.

I expect myself to perform at that level every single week.

Besides having an audience, the most important currency for any leader is his or her reputation. And having a reputation for over-delivering on what's expected of you should give your visitors, subscribers and customers more reason to spend their money with you and refer their friends.

It is no good being good in halves of games or in one game and not in the next one.

Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.

You have to prove yourself year in and year out, and if you can't get the job done, every team is going to go and try and find somebody else that can.

Slow and steady is the way we built our brand, and I think that's why it's one of the leading home space brands.

The secret to having an epically beloved bakery is consistency.

My delivery is something I always worked on.