Jon Taffer Quotes

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

We know how to build cross-disciplinary teams that are needed to take good ideas and make them great businesses. We're good at nurturing that kind of environment. And I do think that's something that's increasingly recognized in a lot of sectors in the economy.

My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I'd then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.

I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was seven, I remember sticking a sign on my bedroom window that read, 'Manicures and massage, come on in.' My mother rushed in, saying, 'All these weirdos are knocking on the door.'

I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.

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

I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.'

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.

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

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

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

I've been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.

Start a small business, borrow money from your parents if you have to.

In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective is absolutely necessary for the creation of a great, growing business.