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The infusion of technology and social marketing to bar spaces is a big opportunity.
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You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I've seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.
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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.
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The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.
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The right personality with a weak resume can be filled in. That's the employee who will become great.
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I don't want to hire people who have less of a commitment than I do.
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Make no mistake: confrontation is unavoidable in business.
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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.
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If I'm your boss, and I truly want you to be successful... I'm inherently going to teach you. I'm inherently going to correct your mistakes. I'm inherently going to spend time with you. I'm inherently going to lead you.
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Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.
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Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.
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When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner.
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Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!
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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.
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If a candidate puts together a small business platform, I'll go out on the road for him. You know, I'll support him.
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The whole point of a bar is, I look in your eyes, you look in my eyes, we've never met each other before, we talk, we get to know each other, have a drink together, and the great end of that story is we get married someday.
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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.
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One of my first bartending gigs was on Santa Monica Boulevard at Doug Weston's Troubadour, a very famous live music venue.
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When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.
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People connect to a good bar very personally.
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If you have to signal a bartender to get a drink, then they're not looking at you, which is their problem. They're not doing their job. So don't feel rude when you signal a bartender. They're the ones who caused you to signal them. Go for it.
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Never eat anything out of a bowl in a bar... If it isn't in a package, don't eat it.
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Great negotiations happen when people are relaxed, so a relaxing environment is important. A high-energy environment tenses people up. It closes them up. You're not as likely to get that concession.
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I opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.
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I do a lot of corporate consulting work. I've been doing it a long time.
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I went to college for political science and got a bartending job.
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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.
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The 'hottest bar in town,' to me, means high energy.
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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.
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People don't go to bars they think are uncool.
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If I were to pick the life of someone whom I professionally mimic in many ways, it would be Howard Hughes, surprisingly.
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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.
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Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
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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.
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You have to connect with your market and your employees. First, understand that what your market says is fact and what you say is opinion. Then, take the time to create a good connection with your employees. Without those two key connections, your business will be stuck in mediocrity forever.
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I guess I've just always had an entrepreneurial spirit.
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You give me someone with the right personality, and I'll give you a bar manager in three weeks. You give me someone who has been a lousy bar manager for 30 years, and in three weeks, you'll still have a lousy bar manager.
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Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.
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I got in the limelight at a young age. At age 19, people were already comparing me to Anderson Silva.
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It was really tough being in jail. It doesn't get much lower. You're in a filthy room. The food is terrible, and you're surrounded by people who have done all types of crazy crimes. You have nothing that belongs to you, not even your own underwear. It's just terrible.
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I would love to fight Brock Lesnar. He's a massive dude.
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Whenever I talk about Christ out loud, or I tweet a verse or say something in reference about Christ, a lot of people lash out and aren't very excited to hear about my love for Christ.
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I would study the best, the most flashy, the guys that had that flair, the guys that had that wow. I'd study those fighters, and I made up my mind that I'd be all of those at once.
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My opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that, I'll give it to probably boxing.
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I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.
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In a fight, you got to know that there's a strong chance you're going to get hurt. But at the same time, you know, most of the injuries you sustain in fighting are not career-ending injuries.
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I often get people that come up to me with the UFC 151 poster with me and Dan on it and ask me to sign it.
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I put pressure on myself and feel pressure from my fans to not only win but to look great doing it.
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A lot of coaches in MMA focus on MMA wrestling. My coach, his high school team is ranked 10th in the nation. Izzy Martinez is very connected to the wrestling community.
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Being labeled as someone who would cheat hurts more than anything else I've ever been through in my career.
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