When you consider that restaurants have the highest failure rate of any businesses in America, 30 years at one location is quite a remarkable achievement. And it's a well-deserved achievement.

The mall is outstanding, there's great traffic and all the office buildings around. Plus the types of restaurants that are around there are ones that we look at as some of the most successful restaurant groups in the country, so we feel like we're in good company.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

I think tolerating a certain degree of failure-not because it's good for you but because it's a necessary part of growth-is a very important part of the message the leadership can give.

When I saw that study I was not convinced of the significance of the failure of the monkeys. There are many ways for an experiment to fail and most failures are not scientifically interesting. I immediately thought: we could do that in starlings.

He had his own boat, and he sailed all over South America and the Caribbean, ... He would also deliver boats to people who bought them. He would get a crew together and deliver boats to Hawaii, South America and the Caribbean.