Jack Cowin Quotes
102 Jack Cowin Quotes (Hungry Jacks Quotes, Competitive Foods Quotes)
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You didn’t have to be Einstein to figure out there was a market for fast food.
Jack Cowin
If you think you are right have the courage to hang in tough and back what you think are the principles.
Jack Cowin
[The founder of Hungry Jack’s and an early Australian KFC franchisee] I didn’t know anything about the food business. I didn’t even know how to cook.
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Australia is a ‘can-do’ place.
Jack Cowin
I had to make it work.
Jack Cowin
Business isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon.
Jack Cowin
Rule No. 1: stay in business.
Jack Cowin
Focus on the big stuff and delegate the mundane.
Jack Cowin
Don’t fall in love with a business and forget the fundamentals.
Jack Cowin
My definition of the right job is when you can’t tell the difference between work and play.
Jack Cowin
I had a business bent from an early age.
Jack Cowin
When I went through high school, I remember carrying around a Geelong Football Club bag that my father brought home.
Jack Cowin
One of the good things about selling is that you don’t have to work at a company for 30 years to get the gold watch.
Jack Cowin
I had an indecent haste to start a business.
Jack Cowin
I learnt that while you can make a good income as an employee, you pay tax on it, and what you end up with isn’t as profitable as building an asset.
Jack Cowin
Creating an income stream was a very attractive way of creating wealth.
Jack Cowin
I probably moved a bit fast. That’s the beauty of youth – you don’t know your limitations.
Jack Cowin
It’s crucial that you don’t bet the farm on every roll of the dice.
Jack Cowin
Grab an existing idea and apply it somewhere else.
Jack Cowin
Sometimes the original entrepreneur is still tinkering in the engine room while the boat drives onto the rocks.
Jack Cowin
Get other people to do the things that you once did so you can steer the boat and look after the bigger picture.
Jack Cowin
Don’t be too proud or too emotionally attached to a business.
Jack Cowin
While there is a lot of merit in persisting and not giving up, don’t wait until the dogs are barking at the door to make changes.
Jack Cowin
Money is only a by-product of success – it’s not the end answer.
Jack Cowin
Business is really about people.
Jack Cowin
I’m no creative genius.
Jack Cowin
I recognise that no one person has all the answers.
Jack Cowin
[In 2005] We are not a health-food place. We try to build our business on taste, and that is sort of the driving force. But obviously there is a segment of the population who are interested in keeping the fat in their diet down.
Jack Cowin
I went to a small school, which had eight classes in one room – it was a great experience.
Jack Cowin
I wasn’t an academic genius…
Jack Cowin
As a young kid, I sold Christmas cards, delivered newspapers and I had a business cutting people’s lawns in the summer and shovelling snow in winter. I learnt a little about customer service and responsibility.
Jack Cowin
When I went through high school, I remember carrying around a Geelong Football Club bag that my father brought home. I didn’t even know where Geelong was on the map. I have taken to Australian Football in a big way. Hungry Jack’s is one of the major sponsors of the West Coast Eagles in the AFL.
Jack Cowin
I learnt how to sell.
Jack Cowin
After I graduated, I got a job as an insurance salesman and I started earning good money.
Jack Cowin
One of the good things about selling is that you don’t have to work at a company for 30 years to get the gold watch. There’s a daily measuring stick that says: here’s what this guy has produced. There’s a lot of incentive to be good at your job and produce results.
Jack Cowin
[On doing a KFC feasibility study in 1968] On our first night in Sydney, we had a few beers and decided to eat at a Chinese restaurant. There were about 50 people waiting impatiently for their food, so you didn’t have to be Einstein to figure out there was a market for fast food.
Jack Cowin
[On Australia] It’s an independent country where people can grow and develop a business. There’s a positive attitude here that pervades society. The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well, as opposed to North America, where big companies dominate everything and huge corporations run corner stores. Canada, in some ways, is a suburb of the US with regard to business culture.
Jack Cowin
I paid $1,000.00 for a franchise of 10 KFC stores in Western Australia. Back then, $1,000 was the vast proportion of my net worth. Originally, my area was going to be part of Sydney… They said: ‘We’re going to keep Sydney to ourselves because this is where we put our initial investment,’ so I got Perth, which was basically the last of the areas available – and the farthest away.
Jack Cowin
KFC told me to ‘use it or lose it’. I had to get started in Perth and I needed $300,000 to do it.
Jack Cowin
[On finding business investors] You’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs to find one Prince Charming.
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