Danny Tanner Quotes

My desire for a physical representation of my father’s love led to me pursuing parental relationships with all kinds of authority figures I came into contact with. They weren’t all aware of their parental status, but they were all important to me. Combined with my mother, they made up the perfect parental figures: proud of me, hard on me, and charmed by me. They were my Danny Tanners, Carl Winslows, and Aunt Beckys.

There were a lot of limitations and going anywhere in public was always a procedure. I couldn’t even walk to school. In the end, the happiest place on Earth was actually the three walls that made up that enormous how-does-Danny-Tanner-afford-that-house we called home.

Union Square Hospitality Group is another example of a small giant that got both bigger and better. Aside from O.C.Tanner, no company from the original edition of this book grew as much as USHG in the following decade, and no owner had as great a change in philosophy as Danny Meyer. “Here is the headline of my life right now: trying to use growth as the engine to build our culture, which is completely the opposite of what I always feared—that growth would hurt our culture,” he said in 2015. “I have made a 180-degree turn. I now see that sensible, well-paced growth is essential to advance your culture. Because culture needs to grow. The worst thing you can do is to try and maintain culture.