Jon Taffer Quotes

Most people who get into the business are social animals by nature, but do they have the financial abilities to manage a business? A great bar owner has both.

I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.

We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couch and for it to feel like really easy living. I really love to have my friends over, cook dinner for them, catch up, and spend quality time with quality people in my life.

The wine I produce is not for keeping. It's the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

I'm a fan of people getting together.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

I love being at home, having friends over.

There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.

We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time.

Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

I love to kick back at home with some good food, friends, & family and watch DVDs!

There has to be something about your business that gets you excited. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't have spent your precious - irreplaceable - time on it.

When I was at uni, our whole college bar would gather around the quiz machine for a few games every night.

Obviously, everyone's different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house.

I didn't like the bar business.

My main interest is in cultivating my company.

When I paint at home with friends, I have a chat and it's just a good time.

I've got no business acumen whatsoever.