Jon Taffer Quotes

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

I've spent my whole life before coming to Congress as a Chamber of Commerce manager. What that means is you help start small businesses, help them grow in good times and bad.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

I have a couple different businesses.

I'm a business owner.

I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses.

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.'

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?