Rene Redzepi Quotes

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

The truth is that it has not been my pipe dream to have a restaurant. I know restaurateurs, and the amount of work that goes into a restaurant is nothing short of insanity. It's a real commitment, and most restaurants don't make it, so the odds are really against you.

I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don't, well, of course you should leave the market.

Relegation - that's pressure.

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

Football is a business, at the end of the day.

As far as the NFL experience, it's difficult. It's a ton of fun, but it's difficult.

Nobody wants to be losing, especially in New York. It's extremely tough. That's how it is.

Politics is a tough business.

It's hard to continue to be great and have so much on your back, knowing that even a little mistake can mess you up for good.

It's sink or swim for me in 2020.

Nothing is given in the Premier League, and it is tough for spots.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think about surviving.

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

Sales is survival, the best-prepared are most likely to survive.

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.