Quotes from Jon Taffer

The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.

When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

Never eat anything out of a bowl in a bar... If it isn't in a package, don't eat it.

You can tell within a second of entering a bar if it's a place you should spend your time.

People connect to a good bar very personally.

In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

Bars can't be everything to everyone. They must be everything to someone.

People don't go to bars they think are uncool.

You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I've seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.

I'm a businessman, not a bartender.

I was 12 years old and in summer camp. I started a company called Aardvark Industries, which provided basic services to camp counselors.

Don't build a bar for yourself. Build it for your customers. It's all about them: the walls, the finishes, the textures, the food, the beverages, literally everything has to be for them.

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

I think life takes circles sometimes.

The right personality with a weak resume can be filled in. That's the employee who will become great.

Cocktails and food are social.

I really was going to run for Congress.

I went to college for political science and got a bartending job.

I do a lot of corporate consulting work. I've been doing it a long time.

I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went. A lot of them.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

When a sizable group of customers speak, I always listen! The 'customers' view' is key to my confidence in decisions.