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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labour, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

You’ve got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it – because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don’t you see?

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.

One of our biggest problems getting started was money.

That paid for my gas and the travel needed to get the franchises started. Lots of nights I would sleep in the back of my car so I would have enough money to buy cookers the next day if someone took a franchise.

It boggles the mind just to think of all the procedures and precautions the company takes to protect m recipe. Especially when I think how [my wife] and I used to operate. She was my packing girl, my warehouse supervisor, my delivery person – you name it. Our garage was the warehouse.

She’d fill the day’s orders in little paper sacks with cellophane linings and package them for shipment. Then she had to put them on a midnight train.

Life as I have known it has been ‘Finger Lickin’ Good.

There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.

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