You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.
I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.
Only you can judge your life. You have to live up to your own expectations.
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees.
Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.