Zitat des Tages von Michael Heisley:
I love doing deals and operating companies.
I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.
I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.
I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.
The handwriting is on the wall: if you want to have your franchises viable, then you can't have a situation where New York and Chicago and Los Angeles are doing very, very well, and some other teams are, but, I would say, a significant percentage of the teams in our league are struggling financially.
If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.
I've made it clear for some time if somebody came up with the right offer, I'd consider selling the team. It wasn't a secret in Memphis or, really, around the country.