Gerry Harvey Quotes

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy.

Our growth has been very fast but in every place we've gone, we've achieved great success.

Huda Beauty is doing so well, we've grown like crazy.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

Ray Kroc called his first McDonald's restaurant, which he opened in Illinois, 'a little money machine.' That's why thousands of franchisees bought it.

I am so proud of the growth of Dylan's Candy Bar into two more flagship stores: Union Square in New York City and Chicago on Michigan Avenue, and two airport stores: JFK and Detroit.

When we opened our office in Santa Ana, California, in 2016, I could not have envisioned this level of growth, although I always knew our products would be well received by customers in North America.

One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

When we first started the company, I didn't have any thoughts of franchising. We just had company-owned stores.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.

I get the impression that most Chinese entrepreneurs are so focussed on doing what they need to do to succeed in the Chinese market - which is a big enough challenge even for the established players - that nobody is thinking much about the longer run or the bigger global picture.

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

The Godrej group is expanding rapidly. However, we are not diversifying much.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?