Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes
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I changed the rules for allowing people to buy into my system as a franchisee. I explained in detail how tough running a Jimmy John's can be. I explained the long hours, the unforgiving weather, the late nights, the weekends, and all of the sacrifices that go along with the industry. I made it tough for people to get into the system.
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When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require the least amount of management - when they come out into the real world, I find they're very poor at getting through obstacles. And life is about solving obstacles.
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NASCAR is Freaky Fast, just like Jimmy John's.
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Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.
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I assumed when I was first selling the franchises that everyone would be as excited as I was to wake up in the morning to bake bread and slice vegetables.
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We deliver. We are consistent. Customers trust us. Our restaurants are cleaner than most. Our meats are natural, the bread is best in class, the chips are best in class, and we are a group of very systemized and disciplined operators.
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I'm so genuine about what I do and how I want to do it, and I get anxiety when I'm pressured from the outside.
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Money has no feelings.
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Customer loyalty comes from consistent experience. They learn to count on you.
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I'm a good operator: good with food and good with math.
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We're not going to be the fastest-growing or the biggest. I think there's plenty of room for a little old sandwich shop like ours.
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I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.
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I don't hunt big African game anymore.
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I choose to hunt, and I choose to fish. Everything I've done has been totally legal.
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I think I'm in the service business. I mean, our sandwiches are pretty good; I don't know if they're extraordinary. But our service is.
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You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.
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We will continue to pursue anybody who violates our franchise covenants, trade agreements, or anything, for that matter, that is ours.
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It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.
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As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.
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If you're going to do a job, do it right. If you're going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you're going to do anything, do it awesome.
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We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.
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I think the kids that struggle are way more prepared for real life.
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Could we grow faster? Yes. But I don't want to be the biggest. I want to be the best at what I do.
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I wanted all my stores to be the same, to offer the same customer experience, whether I was there or not.