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In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.

The infusion of technology and social marketing to bar spaces is a big opportunity.

You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I've seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.

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.

The wrong personality with the greatest resume in a business will not grow that business.

The right personality with a weak resume can be filled in. That's the employee who will become great.

I don't want to hire people who have less of a commitment than I do.

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.

Make no mistake: confrontation is unavoidable in business.

It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

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.

The word 'mixology' adds $3 to the price of any drink.

Excuses destroy success every time.

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.

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.

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

Leadership is a trait; it's not a skill.

When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner.

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.

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.

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.

I've made stupid investments. I've made stupid decisions as an employee. I've made foolish decisions as a manager. I've gotten fired. I've lost businesses. I went through all of those things.

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

Keeping a bar clean is basic in this business. Having a staff that speaks adequate English is basic.

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.

If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports and spreadsheets you spent hours poring over in your office, but you can't picture the faces of your customers - you're in big trouble.

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.

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.

I'm a businessman, not a bartender.

I'm a really happy guy. I have a great career, a wonderful wife and family.

I have no personal or professional regrets. I really don't.

A bar is a factory, a marketing organization, and a service organization all in one.

I believe that every person's failure is their fault, every single time.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

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.

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

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

Sometimes people go into my business because they like to drink, which - that's insane.

I really was going to run for Congress.

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.

I have a playroom with my drum set, a guitar, and amplifier at home.

What I love about Vegas is that we have the mountains and the Strip. There is always something to do.

My company was based in Palm Beach, Florida, but when 'Bar Rescue' took off, I knew I had to move west. It was a choice between L.A. and Vegas. I have a lot of friends in Vegas, and it became my choice. I'm so glad because I love it here. There's a real sense of community. It's a big town that feels like a small town. Everybody knows everybody.

Don't open a bar if you think all you need to be is social and greet the customers. You have to run a business.

There has been a black hole in the bar business in Las Vegas, particularly on the Strip in tourist areas.

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