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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
- Competitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has become rapidly more competitive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020