Best Jon Taffer Quotes & Sayings

Clean your freakin' fryer. Be responsible for Christ's sake! — Jon Taffer

I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you. — Jon Taffer

Challenges met are the scariest but are sometimes the most worthwhile. — Jon Taffer

I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend. — Ernest Cline

The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe. — L. Ron Hubbard

There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its radiance, its fragrance, its stillness is another moment's experience of something deeper within. When we hold a baby, when we hear extraordinary music, when we look into the eyes of a great saint, what draws us is that deep homesickness for our true nature, for the peace and healing that is our birthright. This homesickness for God directs us toward the healing we took birth for. — Stephen Levine

You better do your job and not lean on me to do it for you. — Jon Taffer

What is the one thing that 43% of men prefer over sex? Bacon! — Jon Taffer

If you're not passionate, you achieve mediocrity — Jon Taffer

Normal life is nuts. It's a downhill deterioration to death no matter how you spice it along the way, and there's nothing you can do about it. Now, a sane person, when faced when that, would just plunk his ass down at the starting line, or wherever along the way this realization finally came to him, and say, "Are you kidding? I quit. I'll slide the rest of the way or sit here and smoke." It takes a true lunatic, or someone functioning with the critical apparatus of a worker bee, to keep scrabbling up that hill when he knows his destiny is dust. But that us what is required. Go on. — Norah Vincent

The best rescues of all leave a family in a better place. — Jon Taffer

The fact of the matter is: when you're doing a project, you try to make it better every moment. And a lot of people get frustrated. But I surrounded myself with a good team of people and I'm really proud of the work we've all done. All I can say is - I've learned this in my business - don't let the process frustrate you; focus on the end. Because the end is pretty wonderful. Just fight it out. — Jon Taffer

There's nothing more ridiculously juvenile than people thinking they have to be grown up and serious when it comes to living the Christian life. — Sarah Arthur

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

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING — Kate Forsyth

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

When I talk to idiots, I get loud! — Jon Taffer

To search for the old is to understand the new. — Gichin Funakoshi

See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business. — Jon Taffer

Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough. — Jon Taffer

I don't accept excuses, only solutions. — Jon Taffer

There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore. — Jon Taffer

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

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

I came up with this idea to create an app. And the premise of the app is this: every problem in the bar business goes away when there's sales. You increase revenue and you solve every problem. It's when the revenues are low that [the business] doesn't work. So I wanted to put together an app that focused on top-line revenue, guest experience, and business management in a more organized way. — Jon Taffer

A consultant is only as good as their last project. — Jon Taffer

I don't embrace excuses. I embrace SOLUTIONS — Jon Taffer

When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream ... — William Butler Yeats

There is no such thing as perfect. But even if there was, I would pick you over perfection any day. — Jacqueline E. Smith

The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory ... — Jimmy Carter

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. — Jon Taffer

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes. — Jon Taffer

Every day is not perfect. — Brett Favre

The cumulative weight of all mortal sins
past, present, and future
pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.) — Neal A. Maxwell

Sometimes, we just have to have enough faith to practice patience and not let our impatience morph into doubt. — Tracie Miles

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

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