You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.'… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy.… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
If you know what you're doing, you can make a meal happen with any kitchen knife. But using a top-quality knife versus… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I've always liked root vegetables because most of them have a natural sweetness. They have a high fructose content, especially when you… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I'm really not that comfortable with people. I mean, I love individuals, but I'm not very social. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
