American - Businessman | June 25, 1957 -
You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.
Tilman J. Fertitta
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Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.
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You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.
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I could not pass up the opportunity to build and operate a casino next door to my hometown. This casino will be where Louisiana locals and Texans will want to play, stay, and enjoy themselves.
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People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.
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I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'
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I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.
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The biggest thing I want to see is that people have the drive to succeed. If they can 'take it or leave it,' I don't do business with them. I enjoy mentoring. I like people who want to learn.
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I buy things that are good properties that I'm going to have forever. I just don't have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.
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When you have to stay late, you stay late, and when you don't have to stay late, you go home. But, you do whatever it takes to get the job done that day.
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We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.
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Everybody notices if you're the last one in in the morning and the first one to go in the evening. Always remember that as an employee.
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