Jon Taffer Quotes

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Jon Taffer

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 7, 1954

The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.

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The right personality with a weak resume can be filled in. That's the employee who will become great.

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I don't want to hire people who have less of a commitment than I do.

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Make no mistake: confrontation is unavoidable in business.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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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I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

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Keeping a bar clean is basic in this business. Having a staff that speaks adequate English is basic.

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Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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

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