Jon Taffer Quotes

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

I'm far more interested in being a successful entrepreneur than being famous.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

I knew that when I grew up, I wanted to have a business.

My husband and I are small business owners.

I thought I wanted to work in music production for a while. I worked for a film producer. Then I was given the opportunity to open a bar in New York. So, I was like, 'You know what, I'm going to give it a shot.'

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

My dream is to have a small company in France.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

I was an investor doing well and decided to be an entrepreneur.

When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.