William Rosenberg Quotes

110 William Rosenberg Quotes (Dunkin’ Donuts Quotes)

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Success is never a straight road.
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Make it happen.
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I’m a man of action. I like results.
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Dunkin Donuts will always be my baby.
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Ray Kroc believed in hamburgers with all his soul, just as I believe in coffee and donuts.
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Life will test you, that’s a promise. It’s what you do with the challenges that determines your failure or your success.
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My philosophy is this: Don’t reinvent the wheel.
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Every man and woman is entitled to a dream.
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Find solutions under any circumstances… It’s possible to create something out of nothing.
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If someone else can do it, I can do it, too.
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Once I put my heart into something, nothing could stop me.
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Most success is achieved by average people with above-average desire.
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When you make your mind up that something is the right thing to do, for God’s sake get out and do it.
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That’s how you make progress: one step at a time.
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The best way to invite competition is to have a successful business with a substandard operation.
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Advertising and public relations alone will not create a successful business. Putting a spotlight on a pile of manure only makes it smell worse.
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Show me a person who never made a mistake and I’ll show you a person who never did anything.
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Have persistence.
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Don’t waste time on reasons why something can’t be done. Find a way to do it instead.
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Ideas while shaving… I shave every day.
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With all things in business and in life, it takes many hands to move a project forward…
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The business was expanding so fast I didn’t have time to stop and reflect about my life.
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There’s a right time for everything.
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[In 2000] At eighty-four years old, I’ve had more than enough time to reflect on what works and doesn’t work in business and life…
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My successes came from hard work, borne out of determination and risk-taking, persistence, innovation, vision, and passion.
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How did a poor kid, who came from the humble, urban neighborhoods of Dorchester in Boston, Massachusetts, who dropped out of school at the age of fourteen to deliver telegrams in the height of the Great Depression in 1930, become a self-made millionaire?
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If you really want to be successful, you have to be willing to put in the time and effort.
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Most of the ‘luckiest’ people I have met are the hardest working and most determined. Winning takes effort.
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After World War II, I started my first company, Industrial Luncheon Service, with one truck and built it into a multistate fleet of 200 trucks and the largest food service business in New England. From there I opened a store called the Open Kettle in Quincy, Massachusetts, selling coffee and donuts. We renamed the store Dunkin’ Donuts and the rest is history.
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In 1960, when franchising was in its infancy, most people looked upon it as an outcast or misfit, but I believed it was the epitome of entrepreneurship and free enterprise.
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Many times along the way to achieving my goals, I ran into roadblocks and made mistakes. The difference is that successful people learn from their errors.
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Successful people learn from their errors. We turn pitfalls into windfalls.
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It doesn’t take a genius to do what I’ve done, but it takes passion, determination and persistence, and above all PMA (Positive Mental Attitude).
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No matter what the circumstance – poverty or its opposite, inherited wealth, a lousy family or an overly protective one, illness, divorce, war, a physical handicap – I believe a person can find a way to succeed.
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No matter what you choose to do… how well you do depends on attitude.
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Attitude is everything. That’s what will determine the quality of your life.
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Success isn’t easy.
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All my life I have been a learner and a teacher.
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Your problem is not brand new. Someone encountered it previously. Find out who solved it best and start where they left off, not where they began.
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Find solutions. That’s how you make a success.
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