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I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook... I learned how important the right equipment is.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.