104 Quotes by Jon Taffer

I don't have enough time. I am being pulled in too many directions. Someone or something is stealing my time. Whether you complain that you are overworked and overextended or you believe that other people, obligations, or competing loyalties are forcing you to postpone or cancel your own aspirations or dreams, you're basically saying one thing: you are inefficient. Yes, it's your fault. It's bullshit and you can change that.

I don't embrace excuses. I embrace SOLUTIONS

It is easy to change a business; it's hard to change people. Yet it's not impossible. One way to do it is to learn how to see an excuse for what it is (a false premise), identify the real issue underlying the excuse making, and address it in a straightforward, unemotional way.

Own your own failures and you will own your success.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

A plate of food hits the table, lands right in front of you. One of two things happens. Either you sit up and look at it and react to it, or nothing happens. If nothing happens then that restaurant is stuck in mediocrity forever.

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

Bars are about experience and interaction; so often, the people make the bar.

Human interaction is something that I believe, as humans, we crave for. And that is where bars and social environments come into play.