Being crazy Quote by Charlie Munger

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

— Charlie Munger

When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're…

— Fred DeLuca

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a…

— Richard Jeni

We have more franchisees that want to pay us money than we have locations to go into.

— Jimmy John Liautaud

A big shop in Manhattan would feel like we were betraying our roots. And we're not just going to open a bunch of stores.

— James Jebbia

When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want…

— Franka Potente

You can't deny the experience of a store. It's fantastic if you're a global brand and you've got the power or the funds to…

— Matthew Williamson

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

— Fred DeLuca

Our Regent Street store has performed fantastically well, but I'm learning as an online retailer that when you want to open physical stores, there…

— Ben Francis

High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

— Chicken John

If you don't need that capital, then all the pressures are different, and the motivations to go public are not there in the same…

— Mark Zuckerberg

What we are unlikely to do as a leading brand space is just buy revenue or partnership with hotels.

— Ritesh Agarwal