I learn a lot from my dad and my grandpa, but I do things in a completely different way.
I like being busy. I couldn't sit around the house all day and do nothing.
You know, life hasn't changed that much for me. It's just, everything's gotten a little nicer. I drive a nicer car. I live in a nicer house.
I've fired quite a few, but I've never had an employee quit on me.
You look for the way something is built. You see a Prada bag and you look at the stitching at the back. If it's a fake one, then they make it really cheap. If it's a real Prada bag and I will look at it, I will count every single stitch and make sure they are exact distance apart.
I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.
There are plenty of days when I would love to get in my truck, drive to work, walk behind the pawn counter and just do a regular job.
It was kind of like, ‘Who's gonna wanna watch a show about four fat dudes in a pawnshop?'
I probably have five protein shakes a day.
I have family that are diabetic and I've seen the hell it's put them through and I've told myself, I'm not going down like that.
I went and got a Lap-Band put in and the weight just started falling off. It was like someone took a backpack full of rocks off of you.
At dinner, I usually go off the chain a little bit and have whatever I want but within reason.
I can only have four to five ounces of food in my stomach. When you only have that much space in there, you don't want to fill it up with crap.
It's weird to feel better at 31 than 25.
It's funny because from the time I was a kid, I knew what I was going to do. What's even funnier is that my dad and my grandfather didn't want me to work at the pawn shop, but I was deadset on it.
I remember when we'd get excited that we had 70 people in the store a day. Now we're, like, ‘We only did 2,000 people?'
One of the perks is when John Mayer calls you up and tells you, ‘Hey, buddy, I just bought a ranch in Montana. When are you gonna come by? When are we gonna hang out?' It's just not something I ever expected to happen.
If the deal is not right, just walk away. You don't have to take it, you don't have to keep going, arguing or trying to find a middle ground. If you're not comfortable with it, just go.
When I fire, I just look at them and I say, ‘You're fired.' I don't prolong it.
I worked with him every day, and he was more than my grandfather. He was my best friend.
