Debbi Fields quotes:

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  • I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

  • Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.

  • The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

  • Being good enough never is.

  • A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

  • You know, Mrs. Fields was never a business. It was a part of me...and I never separated, oh, well, business from personal because to me they all blended together.

  • Good enough never is.

  • You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

  • It's never too late - not now, not ever - for you to pursue your passion.

  • The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

  • We knew we loved making cookies and every time we did, we made people happy. That was our business plan.

  • I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

  • If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.

  • There are people out there who want to say yes. That gave me confidence to keep asking.

  • The most important thing is for you to believe in what you are doing.

  • Small business in America is what fuels the American economy. We need more small business to assist us in creating a great nation and in creating more jobs. It's this frontier that is endless in terms of opportunity and potential.

  • The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance...

  • I love having fun! Why not?

  • I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept. I know that there is, in theory, a glass ceiling. But I don't believe that it's a solid wall. I'm going through it. Nothing's stopping me. Yes, there are these preconceived notions; yes, we have challenges. Let's accept them, let's not be afraid of them, let's break through them.

  • When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way... if it comes from the heart.

  • We are here for a reason. We all have a gift or gifts to share.

  • Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

  • I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

  • What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

  • Don't ever lose sight of your dreams. And, more importantly, reach for the stars.

  • Too many people have a wonderful dream and just talk about it rather than do something about it.

  • All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself.

  • You have to have passion when you're finding a recipe for a career. If you love what you are doing, you'll never work a day in your life.

  • If youre going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldnt do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.

  • I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .

  • Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

  • Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

  • Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

  • The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.

  • If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

  • Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

  • The easiest thing any of us can do is give up. It doesn't matter how many no's you go through.

  • Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

  • Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

  • I feel like any time I'm doing what I love, my big pay-off is watching somebody else be the receiver.

  • The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

  • I love making people smile. I get so much energy through interacting and feeling like I've made a difference, a small difference.

  • I love being in the moment. I love my family. I love chocolate. I love baking.

  • No is an unacceptable answer. I'm allergic to no.

  • I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything.

  • I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen.

  • I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept.

  • When somebody says, "You can't," I say, "Why not?"

  • I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

  • What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself.

  • My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.

  • I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused.

  • Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

  • I love to nurture, I love to help people. I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor.

  • We are here for a reason. We all have a gift or gifts to share. You want to look inside your heart and your soul, and you want to tap into the one thing you love to do. Develop it. Share it. Nurture it. You were meant to have that gift.

  • What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself. Part of what I was trying to do was to make the decision to go into business and find the guts to see it through. I was told that when I went in to see the bankers that I was supposed to be very muted, that I was supposed to blend in, that I was supposed to have the typical drab suit on.

  • I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

  • I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen. I say that purposefully. I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

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