Johnelle Hunt Quotes
27 quotes from Johnelle Hunt — Co-founder of J.B..
“Everything we touched didn't turn to gold, and everything we did didn't work, but we always tried to make it work… We knew if it all failed, we could go back to where we were and be happy.”
“Don't ever go to work in your husband's business on a part-time basis. You will end up never leaving.”
“Johnnie was the love of my life and he had big dreams for the future. He always looked out the windshield at the next big thing and I was always looking out of the rearview mirror trying to hold everything together.”
“I will say that I am a nice person and love people, but when it comes to collecting on debts, I can be the meanest person you'll meet.”
“It was not uncommon for me to get a call from a driver who had run into trouble and was about to quit.”
“I learned to drive very early and I would take one of Daddy's big trucks on a Sunday afternoon and put my friends all in it and drive around in the neighborhoods.”
“I was actually driving a truck when I was in high school.”
“We published our number for them to call and I was on the other end at home.”
“I would call the folks who owed us money at 10 at night and as early as 5 a.m.”
“Pay me and I won't call you again.”
“As long as Johnnie drove a truck, I didn't have to work, but when he started his own business, things changed.”
“I was always trying to hold everything together.”
“I learned to drive very early and I would take one of Daddy's big trucks on a Sunday afternoon and put my friends all in it and drive around in the neighborhoods right there in town.”
“I love truck drivers. I know the life of a truck driver.”
“Wherever I'm at, I'm happy where I am.”
“The first 10 years of the trucking company were really a struggle. Everything we touched didn't turn to gold, and everything we did didn't work, but we always tried to make it work.”
“Johnnie was the love of my life and he had big dreams for the future. He always looked out the windshield at the next big thing.”
“We just kept working.”
“It was a mansion to us.”
“I was not for moving to Northwest Arkansas.”
“He was a salesman, and he was a good salesman. It didn't come easy.”
“I will say that I am a nice person and love people, but when it comes to collecting on debts, I can be tough.”
“I will say that I am a nice person and love people, but when it comes to collecting on debts, I can be the meanest person you'll meet. I would call the folks who owed us money at 10 at night and as early as 5 a.m. If they would hang up, I'd just call them back. I would say, 'Pay me and I won't call you again.'”
“They came up with this idea of putting the trailers on the trains. And look what we have today just because of the friendship of two people that said it can be done when others thought it couldn't.”
“There's an imaginary sign outside this building. None of us can see it, but the people that are passing by can. It says, 'If you have a crazy idea come here, there's a man that'll listen to you.'”
“It was not uncommon for me to get a call from a driver who had run into trouble and was about to quit. I would listen to their concern and then talk them through it. I understood their issues, after all I was married to a truck driver who missed many family events.”
“Johnnie, we've lost the business. You're going to have to go back to driving a truck.”
