Words matter. These are the best Tilman J. Fertitta Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everybody notices if you’re the last one in in the morning and the first one to go in the evening. Always remember that as an employee.
I’m not on a special diet, but I do try to stay away from a lot of fried foods and from a lot of carbs. Yes, I eat a little bit of all of it.
What I don’t like – and I’m concerned about – as a Houstonian is that the SEC is starting to own Houston… There’s more talk about the SEC than there is the Big 12.
I know how to finance something. It’s easier today because, as you’re more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry’s public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.
We will do whatever it takes to keep Tom Herman at the University of Houston. We’re not going to lose Tom Herman because of money. If Tom Herman wants to go to LSU or Texas or Oregon or Baylor or wherever else, we cannot stop him from doing that. But it’s not going to be because of money.
I just don’t understand the Big 12 not wanting to own Houston, Texas, which is soon to be the third-largest populous in the United States. To me, it’s a no-brainer. I’m just kind of disappointed and shocked it’s not an automatic.
We don’t use consultants at Landry’s. We’re our consultants.
There’s a lot of administrator and ex-administrators and board of regents from Baylor that say that Art Briles was a scapegoat at Baylor. I’ve had calls from ex-chairmen of the board of regents there, current big booster there, lawyers that represent Baylor. I have not had one negative call about Art Briles.
People throw in the towel because they don’t know how to fight. You’d be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.
I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it’s not bullying. It’s just warfare.
When you’re public, you’re at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don’t get rewarded for it.
I’m there for my friends, and I’d like to think I’m there for my employees.
I can’t draw a stick person. I can’t play a musical instrument. But I’ve always had a knack for making money.
When we buy somebody, we cut the head off. We keep the operators who are looking – I hate to use this term – they’re looking for a leader. We lead very well. And we immediately spend money on them and make them better. Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.
If anything, I’d say my family was entrepreneurial – my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn’t have this one mentor that was super successful.
I buy things that are good properties that I’m going to have forever. I just don’t have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.
By adding Houston to the Big 12, all it does is make the Big 12 a power conference.
I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.
We’re all born with different talents. I’m really not that smart, but I can see things – financially and development-wise. It’s just the way we’re made.
I always ask candidates two things: ‘How many times have you been fired?’ and, ‘Do you watch your clock when it’s time to go? Do you look at your phone? Do you look at your watch?’
I absolutely do not think it’s a foregone conclusion that we’re going to lose our coach. Tom Herman loves the University of Houston. He’s happy to be coaching at the University of Houston, and I think there are only a few places Tom Herman would even consider.
I run in a local park two or three times a week. I probably should do more than I do, but I also do weight-lifting along with that cardio.
Success to me is anybody who does something better than somebody else.
As the economy improves, there aren’t as many opportunities.
Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.