Jon Taffer Quotes

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Jon Taffer

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 7, 1954

When you're on-stage, you're expected to perform in the bar business. You shake hands. You smile. You're all positive energy: you add to your environment. When you walk in the door to the back of the house, that's like a stage door. You're off-stage now.

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When my company does a good job, we make people happy. They laugh, they smile, they have a good time - that's what we do for a living. Any business doing that is making a noble effort.

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Excuses destroy success every time.

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

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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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The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable.

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The simple things can be really powerful.

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When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.

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I'm a businessman, not a bartender.

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

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

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I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

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Revenue cures everything in the business world.

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

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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.

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In my extensive experience, I can honestly say that Sculpture Hospitality's inventory solutions are world class and, by far, the most comprehensive in the industry.

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Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.

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Cocktails and food are social.

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Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

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The word 'mixology' adds $3 to the price of any drink.

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