Playing With Fire Quotes

“To walk into an office and have your ‘good morning’ returned with a grunt and no eye contact is not my idea of a happy house. There is always time to acknowledge that Someone is more important than Something, even if it takes a couple of precious minutes.”
― Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire: The no-holds-barred autobiography of the star chef

“I recall when we opened in New York how the designer locks were impossible to slide shut, often leading to a difficult encounter no matter which side of the door you were on.”
― Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire: The no-holds-barred autobiography of the star chef

“you need to know what you’re aiming for in order to reach it.”
― Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire: The no-holds-barred autobiography of the star chef

“Put on a fireman’s uniform and walk past the fire because it’s your lunch break, and you are dead. Grab a bucket and start throwing water over the blaze and you are seen to be God’s little helper.”
― Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire: The no-holds-barred autobiography of the star chef

“Loo doors without a decent, large hook are as infuriating as a lock that doesn’t offer you full protection.”
― Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire: The no-holds-barred autobiography of the star chef

“Finding great talent, looking after staff and nurturing their talent is what we learned to do well. Losing good people is symptomatic of only one thing: truly crap, appalling and abysmal management.”
― Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire: The no-holds-barred autobiography of the star chef

“Now I was lucky, in a way, because my money didn’t come overnight. It started with a gradual easing of housekeeping restraints so that Tana could shop without working out the sums beforehand. She could impulse-buy and fill the kitchen shelves with things that were fun to buy, even if they never saw the light of day again. Norwegian wooden toothpicks, plastic swords for the olives, pink loo paper with the imprint of raspberries”
― Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay’s Playing with Fire: The no-holds-barred autobiography of the star chef