Thomas Monaghan

“The 30-minute promise is what made Domino's.”

“I'm not in the pizza business. I'm in the pizza delivery business.”

“Failure is just a resting place. It is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

“I had to work and learn and learn and work. It was a vicious cycle.”

“I'm a competitor. I love to compete. And I'm a good competitor.”

“The secret to our success is that we've been able to get a lot of people to do a few things well.”

“I came from a background of poverty. I didn't have a lot of things, and I was always looking for security.”

“I realized that the biggest problem I had is that I was a spendthrift. I lived for the moment.”

“You can have anything you want in life if you're willing to pay the price.”

“I had a great desire to be successful. I was looking for a business that had a very low entry fee.”

“The big thing is to be a person of integrity.”

“When you're running a business, you have to be very careful about not letting your ego get in the way.”

“My goal was to be a millionaire by the time I was 30. I missed it by ten years.”