Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

Tilman J. Fertitta

If you aren't listening, you are missing out.

Tilman J. Fertitta

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I'm there for my friends, and I'd like to think I'm there for my employees.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I always ask candidates two things: 'How many times have you been fired?' and, 'Do you watch your clock when it's time to go? Do you look at your phone? Do you look at your watch?'

Tilman J. Fertitta

We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.

Tilman J. Fertitta

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

Tilman J. Fertitta

You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I buy things that are good properties that I'm going to have forever. I just don't have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.

Tilman J. Fertitta

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

Tilman J. Fertitta

When we buy somebody, we cut the head off. We keep the operators who are looking - I hate to use this term - they're looking for a leader. We lead very well. And we immediately spend money on them and make them better. Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

Tilman J. Fertitta

As the economy improves, there aren't as many opportunities.

Tilman J. Fertitta

Everybody notices if you're the last one in in the morning and the first one to go in the evening. Always remember that as an employee.

Tilman J. Fertitta

When you have to stay late, you stay late, and when you don't have to stay late, you go home. But, you do whatever it takes to get the job done that day.

Tilman J. Fertitta

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.

Tilman J. Fertitta

We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

Tilman J. Fertitta

I run in a local park two or three times a week. I probably should do more than I do, but I also do weight-lifting along with that cardio.

Tilman J. Fertitta

Tilman J. Fertitta Quotes

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

If you aren't listening, you are missing out.

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.

I'm there for my friends, and I'd like to think I'm there for my employees.

I always ask candidates two things: 'How many times have you been fired?' and, 'Do you watch your clock when it's time to go? Do you look at your phone? Do you look at your watch?'

We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.

Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.

I buy things that are good properties that I'm going to have forever. I just don't have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

When we buy somebody, we cut the head off. We keep the operators who are looking - I hate to use this term - they're looking for a leader. We lead very well. And we immediately spend money on them and make them better. Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

As the economy improves, there aren't as many opportunities.

Everybody notices if you're the last one in in the morning and the first one to go in the evening. Always remember that as an employee.

When you have to stay late, you stay late, and when you don't have to stay late, you go home. But, you do whatever it takes to get the job done that day.

I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.

We're all born with different talents. I'm really not that smart, but I can see things - financially and development-wise. It's just the way we're made.

I run in a local park two or three times a week. I probably should do more than I do, but I also do weight-lifting along with that cardio.