Quotes by Michael Heisley - Page 1

I love doing deals and operating companies.
Michael Heisley /
Deals
Love Doing I Love
Operating
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I've never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Michael Heisley /
Bargaining
Collective Bargaining
Collective
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There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.
Michael Heisley /
Business World
Making Money
Business Money World
Substitute
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I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.
Michael Heisley /
Assets
Making A Difference
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How much you accumulate is a byproduct of what you enjoy doing in life. And I enjoy buying companies.
Michael Heisley /
Buying
Accumulate
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I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.
Michael Heisley /
Flip
Operate
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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.
Michael Heisley /
Me Day People
Brightest
Consult
Rca
Sold
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I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.
Michael Heisley /
Memphis
Nba
Love Good Me
Everything Else
Frankly
Quite Frankly
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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.
Michael Heisley /
Wealth
Accumulate
Acquiring
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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.
Michael Heisley /
Memphis
Selling
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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.
Michael Heisley /
Turning
Distressed
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Pau Gasol is extremely popular in Spain. I don't know how much he sells, but I get nothing in Spain. The money goes to the league, and they use it for whatever they choose to use it for to run the league.
Michael Heisley /
Sells
Spain
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I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.
Michael Heisley /
Tremendously
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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.
Michael Heisley /
New York
Chicago
Handwriting
League
Los Angeles
Significant
Situation
Wall
Where Your Situation
Angeles
Financially
Los
Percentage
Struggling
Teams
Viable
York
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