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- Nov 07, 2020
Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The infusion of technology and social marketing to bar spaces is a big opportunity.
- Beautiful Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I've seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right personality with a weak resume can be filled in. That's the employee who will become great.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting somebody else in crisis mode and causing them to make quicker decisions, urgent decisions, rather than prolonged, more logical decisions can be very advantageous. So, to be successful in business, you have to understand the power of confrontation and how to use it correctly.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.
- Cemetery
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Drink
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'mixology' adds $3 to the price of any drink.
- Excuses
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- Nov 07, 2020
Excuses destroy success every time.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the worst of our recession, bars were making money. Every bar can make money. If they're failing, it's not because of the president or Congress or Ukraine. It's because of them. And if you own failure, then you'll own success.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.
- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
A plate of food hits the table, lands right in front of you. One of two things happens. Either you sit up and look at it and react to it, or nothing happens. If nothing happens then that restaurant is stuck in mediocrity forever.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keeping a bar clean is basic in this business. Having a staff that speaks adequate English is basic.
- Football Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
People see themselves on camera. They're ashamed of the things that they do, so they have a choice: Either they accept responsibility for it, or they blame the show for it. It's a human reaction.
- Businessman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a businessman, not a bartender.
- Marketing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bar is a factory, a marketing organization, and a service organization all in one.
- Common Denominator
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is an extremely personal thing, and so is success. The problem with people is they don't own their failure, and if you don't own your failures, you're never going to own your successes.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people go into my business because they like to drink, which - that's insane.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really was going to run for Congress.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I love about Vegas is that we have the mountains and the Strip. There is always something to do.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020