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

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

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.

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.

I'm a really happy guy. I have a great career, a wonderful wife and family.

I have no personal or professional regrets. I really don't.

I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time.

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

I can change businesses, but I can't change people.

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.

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.

Cocktails and food are social.

I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.

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.

If a candidate puts together a small business platform, I'll go out on the road for him. You know, I'll support him.

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.

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.

I think life takes circles sometimes.

When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

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.

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

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

The 'hottest bar in town,' to me, means high energy.

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.

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

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.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

I guess I've just always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

It's easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. But once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad, and you will no longer be able to work for Him on the common sense basis.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.

It is a great thing to see physical courage, and greater still to see moral courage, but the greatest to see of all is spiritual courage; oh, to see a person who will stand true to the integrity of Jesus Christ no matter what he or she goes through!

The Bible talks plentifully about joy, but it nowhere talks about a 'happy Christian.' Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not. Remember, Jesus Christ had joy, and He prayed 'that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.'

When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.

If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

It is not repentance that saves me; repentance is the sign that I realize what God has done in Christ Jesus.

The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life. Are you remaining loyal to the Son of God in the things which beset His life in you? Do you continue to go with Jesus? The way lies through Gethsemane, through the city gate, outside the camp; the way lies alone, and the way lies until there is no trace of a footstep left, only the voice, 'Follow Me.'

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him.