Top 50 Quotes & Sayings by John Schnatter
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman John Schnatter.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
The original goal for Papa John's was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date.
Companies like Papa John's are largely a collection of small independent businesses.
As long as our quality and company continue to get better, by nature, we will get bigger.
America in 2016 is on the path to becoming what Germany was in 1867.
I just don't like making mistakes.
I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.'
My wife's a redneck, and she loves a muscle car.
It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick's Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, 'Dad, I can fix it.' It was the most natural thing I'd ever done. It just made sense to me.
You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.
I pay myself three, three and half million - which is plenty of money, c'mon.
I had this dream of starting a pizza business since college. I came up with the name, menu, and recipes back then.
When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.
In school, I always had to work harder than others.
I just like building stuff.
Regardless of what the minimum wage is, you really have the market wage. And if we're not taking care of our people, then we're going to lose good talent, at every level.
Daddy was fun-loving and lighthearted - he lived life to the fullest and was not scared to take a risk.
The board gets upset because I won't take a raise, but I've got plenty of money.
Sales went crazy when we made the pizza perfect.
I don't condone racism. I don't condone prejudice.
When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house.
I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.
Getting big is just a byproduct of getting better.
I found something I loved to do when I was 15 - making pizzas.
I buried my dad on a Thursday and showed up for work on Friday.
We don't promote or advocate people eating a whole pizza.
If you are a success, you can take care of people; you can give a lot to your community.
Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money.
I am the American Dream.
With a head coach, you make a mistake and learn. With a king, you make a mistake and get your head bitten off.
Find something you love to do. Work it to the bone. And you'll be successful.
Pizza's really nutritious; it's good for you. You can't sit down and eat a whole carton of eggs, and you can't sit down and eat a whole pizza.
Pizza's actually healthy for you if you don't eat too much of it. If you eat one or two slices, it's very nutritious.
Many in the media reported that I said Papa John's is going to close stores and cut jobs because of Obamacare. I never said that.
I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.
If you don't take care of the people doing the heavy lifting, they will burn your castle down.
If the people buying the pizza are happy, they'll probably buy the pizza again.
I love my business. I love my employees.
You have to make mistakes to get better. I used to make a mistake, and I kind of get down on myself. And now I make a mistake, and I go, 'Okay, did you learn from this? Did you stick to the facts, and did you stick with the logic? Did you have the analytics?'
I have a goal of being the No.1 pizza company in the world.
I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.
I was born and raised in the state of Indiana, and it's where I started Papa John's, so this state and our partnership with the Pacers hold a special place in my heart.
At 22, I had something I loved to do - make pizza - and something I was good at: running a business.
I didn't like the bar business.
NFL leadership has hurt Papa John's shareholders.
I think if there was a sharing in the ups, a sharing in the downs, the country would not be as divided.
Better ingredients, better pizza - it's not a slogan. It's a way of life.
In 1991, I didn't have $2,000 to go on vacation.
I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over 5,000 jobs worldwide. And, we have no plans to cut team hours as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
It's my job to build the people who are going to build the company.
Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.
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