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Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.
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Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
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Society is causing us to talk less and interact more digitally. So, I'd be remiss if I didn't believe that businesses will have to follow that same path.
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If your main reason for opening a bar is to have somewhere for you and your friends to hang out, then build a bar in your basement, and stay out of the industry.
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Great negotiations happen when people are relaxed, so a relaxing environment is important. A high-energy environment tenses people up. It closes them up. You're not as likely to get that concession.
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When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.
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Most people who get into the business are social animals by nature, but do they have the financial abilities to manage a business? A great bar owner has both.
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The whole point of a bar is, I look in your eyes, you look in my eyes, we've never met each other before, we talk, we get to know each other, have a drink together, and the great end of that story is we get married someday.
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If a candidate puts together a small business platform, I'll go out on the road for him. You know, I'll support him.
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Each 'Bar Rescue' is shot in real time. So the complete rescue is 5 days from my arrival to my departure. I do not see or meet anyone in advance.
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I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.
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Eating something with someone is the second most sensual and intimate thing you can do in life. The experience can't just be about consumption.
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Any time a bar or chef cares more about their own ego than the tastes and comforts of their customers, they should just open a monument to themselves and not a business.
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When a sizable group of customers speak, I always listen! The 'customers' view' is key to my confidence in decisions.
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When I meet with people who are ineffective managers with failing businesses, I can't change what they do - I have to change the way they think.
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I've made stupid investments. I've made stupid decisions as an employee. I've made foolish decisions as a manager. I've gotten fired. I've lost businesses. I went through all of those things.
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Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.
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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.
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The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.
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Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.
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I can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.
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When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.
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I opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.
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Never eat anything out of a bowl in a bar... If it isn't in a package, don't eat it.
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What I love about Vegas is that we have the mountains and the Strip. There is always something to do.
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I was 12 years old and in summer camp. I started a company called Aardvark Industries, which provided basic services to camp counselors.
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Government employees make a good amount of money - income levels are very high in Washington, D.C. compared to other markets, so they are living in a bubble.
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If I were to pick the life of someone whom I professionally mimic in many ways, it would be Howard Hughes, surprisingly.
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Sometimes people go into my business because they like to drink, which - that's insane.
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It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.
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