I was always into business and even when I was in high school, I was trading stocks in the stock market

"I used to take my grandfather's briefcase and carry it around," recalled Tilman Fertitta. "I was always into business and even when I was in high school, I was trading stocks in the stock market."

"Three of my four oldest have worked in the company and they've all started either waiting tables or in the kitchen. I want them to learn the business that way," said Fertitta. "I don't believe that just because you made it in this generation, that it should be easy for the next generation."

"It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice," Fertitta said. "Everybody's going to have a microscope on you and where there's a lot of perk for being you, when things go bad, it goes the other way for you, so make sure always hold yourself out and make sure you conduct yourself real properly all the time."

"I haven't changed at all," said Fertitta. "The little details that bothered me 25 years ago still bother me today. If i'm walking through a property, I'll see trash on the floor, I'll still pick it up -- I'll walk back in the kitchen and say hello to everybody, so the biggest thing about being successful is don't change."

"In the business world, nothing scares me because I'm not going to do anything that I'm not very comfortable doing," he said.


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