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.

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.

You have to know your strengths and weaknesses. If you don't have a particular strength, you need to go out and replace that.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I'm very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.