Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

There is a cause/effect relationship between your investment in yourself and the future you have.

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

My gratitude towards fans has always been sitting itself deep down there in my heart.

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.

Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.