Quotes from Dave Thomas

You are what you eat. Which makes me cheap, quick, and easy.

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Puggsy: There's--nothing to see. Gather, uh, over there. Excuse me, is there anything I can do? I am a scientist, sir. Is there any problem? Fred: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt things. He isn't a good swimmer and it's a little too soon for him to be out here unsupervised. Puggsy: Well, I can assure you, he's quite safe with me.

You probably don't want to change the meaning of true halfway through your program (except perhaps if you're a politician).

You can do what you want to do.

We're all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers' expectations everyday.

a way, processes in Elixir are like objects in an object-oriented system (but they have a better sense of humor).

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

What's the secret to success? It's no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

There's no one to stop you but yourself.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don't have time.

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we're all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers' expectations every day.