Majicman Notes

And I’ll never forget when I asked for grand ma’s tomato sauce recipe and she said, “I’ll give you the recipe, but I’ll tell you one thing right now. It’s never going to be any better than the worst ingredients you put into it. And number two, those ingredients themselves won’t be any better than how well you treat them after you buy them. So you’d better get the best tomatoes, which in New York, is a two-month season.” It’s August and September. And even if you get the best tomatoes, you’d better not throw them in the back corner of the walk-in refrigerator and bruise them so that they lose their sugar. Treat them the right way. Well, guess what? Same thing goes for people. You can have the best recipe in the world for how you hire people, but you’d better pick the best tomatoes. You’d better treat them the right way if you want the best sauce.

Danny Meyer ( from Tim Ferriss podcast)