Danny Meyer Quotes

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.

The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.

The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.

I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a young mogul. I'm blessed.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

It's very difficult for an entrepreneur to let go. It's very hard to sell a successful business. People sometimes hold on until the business has no value at all.

I can't tell you how many board meetings I've been in where the CEO is anguished over the impacts on morale that cost cutting or layoffs will bring about. You know what hurts morale even more than cost-cutting and layoffs? Going out of business.

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.

The only real way to success over time is a diversified economy.

I love Gateway, and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure the company can grow and prosper in this challenging environment.