62 Quotes by Fred DeLuca

We're very much in the people business in that there are two important groups you have to work with: customers and employees.

I don't have any interest in cashing out or leaving the business or doing something else. I just love Subway, and I want to keep focusing on the company for the benefit of all our franchise owners. So I'm kind of like married to the job.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

Back when we started, people didn't even know what a submarine sandwich was. The product was only sold in a few markets.

I made the first sandwich before entering college.

Most of the people we sign on as development agents commit to goals they don't believe are possible.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.

I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.

You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.