Paul Prudhomme Quotes

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

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

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

My dad started his business, No Limit, for himself.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.

If I wasn't acting, I would want to be in the food and restaurant business. I really love to cook and am fascinated by the art of cooking in general.

I wanted to help my sister, Latoya, because she's an awesome cook. She's one of the best culinary people I've ever met. She makes awesome cakes, so I was thinking about starting a little coffee shop cafe where she could sell them. I want to open a little, small, mom-and-pop place, but she can also do catering, too.

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 have spent more time in my life working and being in restaurants than being at home. I immediately feel comfortable entering a restaurant, and I feel even more comfortable in the back with the chef and cooks.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.

I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.

My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'