Jerry Reinsdorf Quotes

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Woodstock was a business. A very poorly run business.

If you put government in charge of a desert, soon there will be a shortage of sand.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

My dad was a terrible businessman.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

...an economic ignoramus unfit to oversee a fifty-cent raffle.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

I don't know what the hell you're doing here telling us how to discharge our business. You were the worst Secretary of HEW the country ever had.

Most of our [economic] problems are of our own making.

Right after 9/11, the spigot got turned on and a fire hose of money poured out. Much of it was badly monitored and much of it was for stuff that just didn't work.

Big problems usually come from big sources.