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“Now, by total contrast, the biggest show in the last year on daytime TV was Ellen, and it was crickets. It was absolute crickets.”

“And so I went out and bought a truck. I started a company called The Rubbish Boys. It was a week after I got that idea, went on to the classifieds, found a truck, 700 bucks, boom, off I went.”

“I couldn't have done that. We would have lost the business. We would have bankrupted it.”

“We have about 600 employees in the head office, about 250 franchise owners across Canada, the United States, and Australia, sold out with the one 800 got junk, still plenty of territory left, and wow, one day in shot shine.”

“The easiest is a billion. The hardest is a million. From a million, it starts to get easier at ten million, easier at a hundred, and even easier yet at a billion. That blew my mind, but it actually has proven in my situation as we're two-thirds of the way to a…”

“We park our trucks, all 2000 of them in high profile visible intersections for people to see.”

“So, one 800 got junk, the first baby in the family, so to speak, is about six hundred million in revenue.”

“It was the day I fired my entire team. Now, literally, I didn't preserve one. There were 11 people in the company. I always say that one bad apple spoils the whole bunch, and I think I had nine out of 11 that were bad apples. Now, not bad human beings, but jus…”

“So with being on Oprah, it was phones ringing off the hook. We could quadrupled our number of phone lines. We had 70 phone lines at the time. We literally brought in family, friends, parents to sit down and answer phones.”

“And 14 months later, we did. I was sitting there on stage in Chicago, thirty-five million viewers watching us all at the same time.”

“Eric took the business from a hundred million to the combined family of the three brands doing seven hundred million.”