See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business.

The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.

You can tell within a second of entering a bar if it's a place you should spend your time.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

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

Keeping a bar clean is basic in this business. Having a staff that speaks adequate English is basic.

What I love about Vegas is that we have the mountains and the Strip. There is always something to do.

The right personality with a weak resume can be filled in. That's the employee who will become great.

When I get angry, it's with purpose. My purpose is to solve a problem. And I never lose sight of that.

There has been a black hole in the bar business in Las Vegas, particularly on the Strip in tourist areas.

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I've seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

Don't open a bar if you think all you need to be is social and greet the customers. You have to run a business.

I think everybody thinks they can have the next $100 million venue. I think there is a bit of arrogance in that.

If a candidate puts together a small business platform, I'll go out on the road for him. You know, I'll support him.

Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.

When a sizable group of customers speak, I always listen! The 'customers' view' is key to my confidence in decisions.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

I'm very involved in all of my social media activities. I'm not an actor. I play myself, and I take that very seriously.

If I were to pick the life of someone whom I professionally mimic in many ways, it would be Howard Hughes, surprisingly.

One of my first bartending gigs was on Santa Monica Boulevard at Doug Weston's Troubadour, a very famous live music venue.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went. A lot of them.

I can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.

The fact of the matter is that the most important responsibility a bar owner has is public safety and the safety of the people in it.

Human interaction is something that I believe, as humans, we crave for. And that is where bars and social environments come into play.

I was 12 years old and in summer camp. I started a company called Aardvark Industries, which provided basic services to camp counselors.

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

Eating something with someone is the second most sensual and intimate thing you can do in life. The experience can't just be about consumption.

When I meet with people who are ineffective managers with failing businesses, I can't change what they do - I have to change the way they think.

Each 'Bar Rescue' is shot in real time. So the complete rescue is 5 days from my arrival to my departure. I do not see or meet anyone in advance.

I'm the type of employer who will hire based on personality, based on potential. If you put the resume before the personality, you're going to fail.

I believe that a cook in a kitchen isn't producing an entree: he's producing a reaction. The product is the reaction; the entree is just the vehicle.

Society is causing us to talk less and interact more digitally. So, I'd be remiss if I didn't believe that businesses will have to follow that same path.

Government employees make a good amount of money - income levels are very high in Washington, D.C. compared to other markets, so they are living in a bubble.

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.

Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, I’m okay with that.

If your main reason for opening a bar is to have somewhere for you and your friends to hang out, then build a bar in your basement, and stay out of the industry.

In my extensive experience, I can honestly say that Sculpture Hospitality's inventory solutions are world class and, by far, the most comprehensive in the industry.

I've had a best-practices reputation in this industry for a long time. I don't know anything about those other apps, because in the bar space, there really are none.

Any time a bar or chef cares more about their own ego than the tastes and comforts of their customers, they should just open a monument to themselves and not a business.

In the thirty years of my career I learned everything about success, but I did not learn, really, about failure. In Bar Rescue I got exposed to failure at a very deep level.

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was still going on. There was an amazing conflict within the scenes.

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