“A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you’re not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you.”
"The best restaurants are places where you feel like you’re not being sold anything."
- Danny Meyer
Integrity
"The only way a company can grow, stay true to its soul, and remain consistently successful is to attract, hire, and keep great people."
- Danny Meyer
Success
"Make new mistakes every day. Don’t waste time repeating the old ones."
- Danny Meyer
Learning from Mistakes
"Virtually nothing else is as important as how one is made to feel in any business transaction. Hospitality exists when you believe the other person is on your side."
- Danny Meyer
Service
"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"
- President Boyd K. Packer
Ambition
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition