Dave Thomas Quotes

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

  Dave Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want

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

  Dave Thomas

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Making

• There’s no one to stop you but yourself.

  Dave Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself

• The anger that appears to be building up between the s*xes 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.

  Dave Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sex, Bad people

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

  Dave Thomas

  Topics in Experience

• 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.

  Dave Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Keep, Food

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

  Dave Thomas

  Topics in Life

  Tags in World, Different

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

  Dave Thomas

  Topics in Luck

Dave Thomas (8)

Birth:	2nd July, 1932
Death:	8th January, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Philanthropist

About

Dave Thomas was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was an American businessperson and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history. He earned a GED in 1993. Thomas was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1999. Thomas was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

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