QUOTES

If you're experienced, you know why not to do something or how not to do something. Whereas if you're a young engineer you don't have that negativity towards certain things.

You can't do anything halfway.

You don't want to fail, although failing is how you learn. Pain is the best teacher. And so, you have to have some little failures along the way. But you can't have it paralyze you to where you don't want to make any decisions because you're afraid to fail.

You have to be so fanatical when you have a dream and others don't believe in it. Fanaticism is what carries you through.

I aim not to be clever but to be dogged, and my doggedness has gotten me so far.

Most people have a thing for which they are naturally prolific. What's the thing you just can't help but do a crazy high rep count of?

Failure is not an option. It's binary. There's no option. Success or death.

We're not a corporate office. We are a restaurant support office. We're here to support the people who are serving our customers.

Imagine how hard it is to start your business, then multiply that by infinity. And if you’re still committed to do it, and you have the stamina to stick with that, then you’ll be successful.”

The most important thing a CEO does is recruit superlative people.