Jon Taffer Quotes

Part of me is very entrepreneurial.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

Look, I'm an entrepreneur, I want to create things, I'm a builder. I don't want handouts. If I didn't play football I'd be doing something else. That's me. I don't want to be held back. I want to go forward. I want to better myself.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.

The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

So many opportunities are born from not asking permission.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

When there is no work, I create my own.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.