“The best restaurants are places where you feel like you’re not being sold anything.”
"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
"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."
- Danny Meyer
Ambition
"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
"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."
- Beauty and the Beast
Integrity
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
- Baltasar Gracian
Integrity
"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."
- Hachiman Hikigaya
Integrity
"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."
- Gintoki Sakata
Integrity