William Rosenberg Quotes

110 William Rosenberg Quotes

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A good sense of humor will take a person a long way.
William Rosenberg

Over the years I learned a key lesson, as did other entrepreneurs like me: We know we don’t know. That’s why we’re always asking questions, seeking answers.
William Rosenberg

Sometimes people who hold a lot of degrees think they know everything. If they think they know everything, they stop growing. They’re not open to new ideas.
William Rosenberg

If you work together, you will accomplish much more.
William Rosenberg

I believe in giving back to the community.
William Rosenberg

If the franchisees do well, I do well; we all do well.
William Rosenberg

If you have a passion for something, you can take the road to success and sustain a lifetime habit of hard work and personal achievement.
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Success is a journey.
William Rosenberg

My family was of modest means. If modest means poor, then we were extremely modest.
William Rosenberg

Those hot cake donuts – man, they were delicious!
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If you’re dealing with a drunk, keep the whiskey away from him; if you’re dealing with a gambler, keep the money away from him; if you’re dealing with people who have weaknesses, try to keep them away from the weakness; but there’s nothing, nothing in the world you can do to solve the problems of a liar.
William Rosenberg

The only thing you’re going to die with is the reputation you created as a person when you lived.
William Rosenberg

All the money in the world isn’t going to make you a better person. You’re going to be respected and remembered for the type of person you were and the character you had.
William Rosenberg

Set goals that are obtainable. If you set out setting too high a goal in the beginning, you set yourself up for failure.
William Rosenberg

You start and learn and build and keep changing your goals as you achieve them.
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We all have certain gifts…
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I could succeed. It didn’t make any difference if I was shining shoes or selling newspapers.
William Rosenberg

Without really knowing it, I got into the habit of thinking like a winner. I’d ask myself: Can I do this? Sure I can do it. If someone else can do it, I can do it, too.
William Rosenberg

If anybody else is doing it, then I can do it as well or better. I developed this positive mental attitude at a very early age.
William Rosenberg

My father… had a great weakness: He never became successful financially because he set unachievable goals.
William Rosenberg



You can have the greatest system in the world, but if you’ve got the wrong people running it, the system will fail or under perform.
William Rosenberg

[On union discussions] Any company has to have a profit. If it doesn’t have a profit, it can’t put money back into the business and grow. It isn’t our intention to put you out of business so long as it isn’t your intention to put us out of business. We can work together. I will gladly show you our books.
William Rosenberg

[On working with unions] I felt that if I could educate these people as to what our problems were and take them into our confidence, we could catch potential problems early before they mushroomed into something larger.
William Rosenberg

I was going to open up a donut store with Alvin and his wife. Harry (Winokur) couldn’t believe it. ‘We’ve got enough problems the way it is! What the hell do you need a donut store for?’… Finally after six months of trying to convince him, I told Harry, ‘If you don’t want to do it, it’s okay with me. I’m going to put my own money into it, open a donut store, and hire Alvin to run it for me. I think the company ought to do it, but if you don’t want to do it by Monday morning, I’m going to do it on my own.’
William Rosenberg

I founded the business; I wanted to stay in the business.
William Rosenberg

I was always thinking of ways to be more productive and prosperous, especially in the stores…
William Rosenberg

In order to secure top locations, we had to compete with Howard Johnson, Exxon, McDonald’s, and other larger chains… The more sales a business generated, the more the business could afford to pay for the prime locations. We needed to find ways to become more competitive with the big players.
William Rosenberg

As with anything new… the fast-buck artists got involved… If done right, franchising was a cash cow.
William Rosenberg

No matter what it was… the minute I heard about a problem, I tried to solve it. I tried to get to the bottom of it… I did what I always did: I asked questions. I looked around and asked who was successful at solving these problems…
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In 1967 we made $1 a share. We decided to go public at twenty times earnings, or $20 a share.
William Rosenberg



I was going to ride it out…
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Peter Lynch, the ace investor for Fidelity Investments, wrote a book in 1990 called ‘One Up on Wall Street’ in which he designated Dunkin’ Donuts stock as one of his ten baggers – one of Wall Streets’ ten best investments over a thirty-two-year period.
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Friends are the icing on the cake.
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I’m here to create progress.
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Everybody out there is a potential customer.
William Rosenberg

The goal is to do the best possible job at whatever you’re doing.
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If you believe in your cause with all your heart and soul and you work hard at it, it will happen despite the naysayers. It may not happen exactly the way you planned it, but it will happen.
William Rosenberg

Concepts are important, but individuals who make concepts happen are much more important.
William Rosenberg

School teaches you how to study and how to absorb information, but that alone will not teach ambition.
William Rosenberg

I learned that degrees alone don’t take a person to the top.
William Rosenberg



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