Andrew Cherng Quotes

#1. There are times when the state department says not to travel to a place, but I'll look it up and find out for myself. For years, even Bali was off the list because they had been bombed. I totally ignored that.

Rita Gelman

#2. My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

Andrew Cherng

#3. We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.

Anna Friel

#4. For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

Ryan Holmes

#5. You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

Andrew Cherng

#6. This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

Andrew Cherng

#7. I wanted to be successful. I definitely didn't want to be poor.

Andrew Cherng

#8. Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.

Andrew Cherng

#9. I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. The Panda mission really speaks to our philosophy. It is, 'Deliver exceptional Asian dining experiences by building an organization where people are inspired to better their lives.' I'm talking about everyone who works at Panda. They're inspired to better their own lives.

Andrew Cherng

#11. Never bring a knife to a gun fight, I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks about it for a moment, then falls off.

Charles Stross

#12. My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

Susan Sullivan

#13. When you cause pain to those weaker than you, the guilt turns to loathing. Into a most secret and profound loathing, for we can never name it as such. We explain it away in other terms, but we, and we alone, know it to be the most animal of all hatreds: our hatred of weakness.

Aatish Taseer

#14. You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

Oswald Spengler

#15. Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.

Andrew Cherng

#16. Statistics are there to be broken.

Chris Kamara

#17. When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.

Andrew Cherng

#18. Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

Andrew Breitbart

#19. Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

Andrew Cherng

#20. He'd paid all his taxes, so that left ... you guessed it.

David Rakoff

#21. When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.

Andrew Cherng

#22. I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was ... well, pretty Hollywood.

Jay Ryan

#23. I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

Andrew Cherng

#24. We opened Panda Inn on June 8, 1973. The whole family - my parents, a brother and sister - all worked at the restaurant for free. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment in San Gabriel and didn't have any money.

Andrew Cherng

#25. When you have the right habits, okay, certain good things will come to you, and that's what life is about.

Andrew Cherng

#26. It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family's version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.

Andrew Cherng

#27. At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

Dante Alighieri

#28. I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.

Andrew Cherng

#29. My favorite way to do business is the Landmark Education Forum.

Andrew Cherng

#30. Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New Yorkers have with Chinese cuisine.

Andrew Cherng