I believe that a cook in a kitchen isn't producing an entree: he's producing a reaction. The product is the reaction; the entree is just the vehicle.

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

The fact of the matter is that the most important responsibility a bar owner has is public safety and the safety of the people in it.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

I really was going to run for Congress.

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

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports and spreadsheets you spent hours poring over in your office, but you can't picture the faces of your customers - you're in big trouble.

I've traveled the world, and as an America,n I get insulted when people say American businesses aren't respected overseas. Look at how our food and beverage companies do around the world. We are regarded as the best at this. A lot of what we do here is exportable, and I don't think there's anybody that does it better in the whole world.

The infusion of technology and social marketing to bar spaces is a big opportunity.

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was still going on. There was an amazing conflict within the scenes.

My company was based in Palm Beach, Florida, but when 'Bar Rescue' took off, I knew I had to move west. It was a choice between L.A. and Vegas. I have a lot of friends in Vegas, and it became my choice. I'm so glad because I love it here. There's a real sense of community. It's a big town that feels like a small town. Everybody knows everybody.

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

People see themselves on camera. They're ashamed of the things that they do, so they have a choice: Either they accept responsibility for it, or they blame the show for it. It's a human reaction.

On 'Bar Rescue,' failure is not an option. I have to try to turn the business around.

Putting somebody else in crisis mode and causing them to make quicker decisions, urgent decisions, rather than prolonged, more logical decisions can be very advantageous. So, to be successful in business, you have to understand the power of confrontation and how to use it correctly.

If I'm your boss, and I truly want you to be successful... I'm inherently going to teach you. I'm inherently going to correct your mistakes. I'm inherently going to spend time with you. I'm inherently going to lead you.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

In the worst of our recession, bars were making money. Every bar can make money. If they're failing, it's not because of the president or Congress or Ukraine. It's because of them. And if you own failure, then you'll own success.

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

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

A bar is a factory, a marketing organization, and a service organization all in one.

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

Make no mistake: confrontation is unavoidable in business.