Chelsea Handler Quotes

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

The most important thing you can do is make the distinction between customer service and guest hospitality. You need both things to thrive, but they are completely different.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

My dreams are huge, man. I dream all day every day. Do I want to get into restaurants one day? Yeah! Do I want to get into hospitality and have my own hotels? Yeah, I do!

From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.

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.

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 opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.

What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs.

You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

Our health-care issues is another big structural drag. All of these need to be dealt with if we're going to keep the American economy the most dynamic and flexible in the world.

Don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.