Tom Monaghan Quotes

120 Tom Monaghan Quotes (Thomas Monaghan Quotes)

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Failure shows you how to do something right.
Tom Monaghan

You don’t get what you expect unless you inspect.
Tom Monaghan

It isn’t enough to know what you want: You have to make sure that the people who can get it for you know you want it.
Tom Monaghan

The biggest little thing you can do is simply be nice to people.
Tom Monaghan

If I lost my health, I’d give every penny I had to get it back, and I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t.
Tom Monaghan

I’ve learned that if you are out in front creating something new and different in business, such as a delivery-only pizza restaurant chain, no degree is going to help you much.
Tom Monaghan

I said… ‘We will get through this somehow, and it will all come out in the wash.’… It’s probably just as well I couldn’t see into the future, because the wash would be no ordinary laundry; it would be more like a long bath in battery acid.
Tom Monaghan

If you show them you want it enough, they’ll want it, too – and when they do, they’ll get it for you.
Tom Monaghan

[On dropping submarine sandwiches from his first pizza shop menu] We decided to eliminate subs, and the effect this had of increasing the amount we made was astonishing. Less, in this case, gave us more, and it was one of the most important lessons I ever learned.
Tom Monaghan

The pizza business is a lot like baseball or football in the way the breaks can go against you when you’re floundering.
Tom Monaghan



[On prototype pizza boxes dropping little round pieces of cardboard on top of the pizzas] American technology is putting space satellites in orbit these days, and you’re telling me you can’t punch a clean hole in a piece of cardboard?
Tom Monaghan

My most visible accomplishment in life has been the building of Domino’s Pizza from a single store into the world’s largest pizza delivery company.
Tom Monaghan

I have a lot of dreams, and I don’t think I’ll ever achieve them all. I hope not. I don’t like having to think about a day when I might stop having new ones.
Tom Monaghan

Winning in business is nothing unless you do it strictly according to the rules.
Tom Monaghan

Everything we established in our first twenty years was merely a foundation. The rest, the entire superstructure of the company, was built in six short years.
Tom Monaghan

The plain wedding ring cost me $12, and I guess you could say the World Series ring cost me $53 million, which is what I paid for the Tigers.
Tom Monaghan

My flamboyance isn’t an ego trip, it’s showmanship.
Tom Monaghan

I think people are at their best when they… love their work.
Tom Monaghan

Life is too precious to be wasted in doing work you don’t love.
Tom Monaghan

I believe in deeds, not words.
Tom Monaghan



I grew up in a Catholic orphanage, and for a short time I attended a seminary, with every intention of becoming a priest. … It’s also a fact, though, that I got kicked out of the seminary.
Tom Monaghan

If you are nice to other people, they’ll be nice to you.
Tom Monaghan

I believe the mind needs exercise, that it will grow in capacity and thinking ability if it is forced to by constant questioning and the desire for new information.
Tom Monaghan

The best way to find things out is by asking questions. One of the most important words in the English language is why.
Tom Monaghan

I view money in much the same way P T Barnum did: it’s important only for the things it can allow you to do.
Tom Monaghan

My dreams are different, but achieving them is the reason I want to make more and more money.
Tom Monaghan

If you’ve chosen the career that’s right for you, it will give your life a feeling of purpose; you’ll love it. And if you love your work, it will be fun.
Tom Monaghan

Facing the threat of bankruptcy was never much fun, of course, and neither was the process of learning the techniques of business administration. I had to do it the hard way.
Tom Monaghan

If something is messed up, I believe in taking corrective action immediately. But I want to be certain it is messed up. It may just seem messed up to some people because it isn’t being done according to the textbook.
Tom Monaghan

I hope that workers in Domino’s offices will be able to look out a window and see a cow or a horse looking in at them.
Tom Monaghan



My father died on Christmas Eve, when I was four years old.
Tom Monaghan

[On his mother] She decided to put us into a foster home. Her plan was to go back to school and become a registered nurse. Then, after she got a good job, she would take us back to live with her again. That’s what happened, but it took a long time. For me, it was too long. [Six and a half years]
Tom Monaghan

I would dream of having things – not the good or the better, but the best – and I could visualize them so perfectly, it was like actually possessing them.
Tom Monaghan

[At school] The harder I try to be good, the worse I get; but I may do something sensational yet.
Tom Monaghan

There’s a saying in every adversity there’s the seed of a greater opportunity, and it really was true… Being fired seemed like a terrible blow at first, but it worked to my advantage because I got another job right away at better pay…
Tom Monaghan

After about a month, I ran out of money. I found some stale popcorn in the corner of a cupboard and part of a bottle of wine and that’s all I had to eat for a week.
Tom Monaghan

I’m an optimist at heart. Even in my darkest moments… I had hope for the promise of the future.
Tom Monaghan

Each man is responsible for his own actions.
Tom Monaghan

I was determined to be the most physically fit Marine in my outfit.
Tom Monaghan

I decided that my hitch in the military would be time completely wasted if I didn’t improve my mind as well as my body…
Tom Monaghan



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