Rande Gerber

I've hired people I've met at parties and other events, and I've hired a lot of people right out of college. It's really based on personality as opposed to experience.

To me, it's important, always in life, to never wonder what would've happened if I only tried something.

Attention from the photographers is part of my life and I think the best thing is to learn to deal with it.

Around 16 I began going out with friends to the city. That's where the action was. We would go to this place on Times Square - real shifty - and get fake IDs made up.

A lot of people go into the bar and nightclub business thinking: 'Hey, we can make money for a year or two, close and then open again,' but for me, it's always been a business and it's always been about longevity.

We made Casamigos just for us to drink. Four years later when, you know, we're offered a billion dollars to sell the company, yeah, we were kind of shocked.

When I was in the restaurant and bar business, I followed a rule, which was that the places that I opened were places that I wanted to go to.

You'll get the maximum potential out of everyone on your team when you create harmony, when you treat each employee well.

When I interview someone, I want to find out about their life, get a sense of their personality, their passion. Maybe I'm hiring for a certain job, but even if your job is marketing, I'm going to ask you for your opinion on other things - taste this, what do you think of this bottle?

When we were younger, but still of legal drinking age, it would be things like Goldschlager or peppermint schnapps. Things like that are not something I ever enjoyed.

I'd only been to Studio 54 a couple of times, when I was 16.

When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, people drink.