Taffer Quotes

#1. Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile.

Jon Taffer

#2. The best rescues of all leave a family in a better place.

Jon Taffer

#3. 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.

Jon Taffer

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

Jon Taffer

#5. A consultant is only as good as their last project.

Jon Taffer

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

Jon Taffer

#7. There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore.

Jon Taffer

#8. When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

Jon Taffer

#9. Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.

Jon Taffer

#10. If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity

Jon Taffer

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

Jon Taffer

#12. 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.

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#13. What is the one thing that 43% of men prefer over sex? Bacon!

Jon Taffer

#14. 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.

Jon Taffer

#15. You better do your job and not lean on me to do it for you.

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#16. I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

Jon Taffer

#17. The institution was a cross between an orphanage and a slaughterhouse. Worst of all, it was run entirely by norms. The word alone would set my chin trembling. I would beg and grieve and he would allow that I deserved another chance.

Katherine Dunn

#18. It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust,'" said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough.

Terry Pratchett

#19. I don't embrace excuses. I embrace SOLUTIONS

Jon Taffer

#20. I don't accept excuses, only solutions.

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#21. If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.

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#22. Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

John Bartholomew Gough

#23. Clean your freakin' fryer. Be responsible for Christ's sake!

Jon Taffer

#24. He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost stories where you wake up and you are sealed in a coffin.

Dan Chaon

#25. The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Jon Taffer

#26. Come home with me, Karissa.
"My breath hitches. "That's not a question."
"Doesn't matter," he says. "Come home with me, anyway.

J.M. Darhower

#27. A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

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

Jon Taffer