“Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.” – Gordon Ramsay
47 Gordon Ramsay Quotes
- “Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.”
2. “One lesson to any young chef out there: never mix family with business.”
3. “Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.”
4. “Push your limit to the absolute extreme.”
5. “We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.”
6. “The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.”
7. “Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.”
8. “I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.”
9. “I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.”
10. “Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.”
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11. “Stopping the junk food and eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.”
12. “This pizza is so disgusting, if you take it to Italy you’ll get arrested.”
13. “There’s a bond among kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.”
14. “This is a really tough decision. Because you’re both crap.”
15. “I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.”
16. “Stopping the junk food and eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.”
17. “Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.”
18. “Put the emotion in the food, because it’s so much more rewarding down the line.”
19. “A recipe is a guideline. Adding, subtracting, evolving it – that is part of the pleasure.”
20. “Baking with chocolate is similar to cooking with wine. You get out what you put in.”
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21. “Addicts are selfish, the most selfish people you’ll ever meet. And self-pitying. And manipulative. Always making promises they’ll never keep. They disgust me.”
22. “The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.”
23. “Eating out doesn’t have to be a formula. Eating out is about having fun. I get really frustrated when it’s badly done.”
24. “Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.”
25. “I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.”
26. “Initially let your food do the talking. You’ll be surprised how far you go in a short period of time.”
27. “This isn’t a pizza, this is a mistake. This is an Italian tragedy.”
28. “In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you’ve cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.”
29. “Stop taking things personally.”
30. “I am what I am. A fighter.”
31. “If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.”
32. “Anyone can open a restaurant. You just need a dinner party where everyone’s pissed and someone says, ‘Hey Tom, you should open a restaurant, this food’s delicious.”
33. “It’s quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.”
“I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.”
“Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.”
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34. “When you cook under pressure, you trade perfection.”
35. “I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.”
36. “Don’t take it personally. Just take it seriously.”
37. “Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.”
38. “I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.”
39. “I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.”
40. “Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.”
41. “I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.”
42. “I think pressure’s healthy, and very few can handle it.”
43. “It’s quite weird knocking that out of them and telling them to forget cooking for chefs; forget what chefs say about your food.”
44. “Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.”
45. “The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.”
46. “Addicts are selfish; it’s always, always about them.”
47. “If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.”
Additional Read: Gordon Ramsay on success
Gordon Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality, and author, was born on November 8, 1966. In total, his restaurant chain, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, has received 17 Michelin stars since its founding in 1997.
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