20 Danny Meyer (The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-02-06
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Product
“Evaluating human potential is something that Danny Meyer credits with success he has too, and he considers the people that work in…”
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Focus
“'The definition of business is problems.' His philosophy came down to a simple fact of business life.”
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People
“So for the people that don't know who Danny Meyer is, uh, people in the restaurant in- industry knew him as, uh…”
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Persistence
“Um, and he talks about he's been a restaurateur for over twenty years, or excuse me, for thirty years, and the first…”
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Capital
“And by the time he's fixing it little by little and he's finally making a little bit of money on it.”
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