Hasso Plattner Quotes

The business side of football makes it seem as though the owners are now more important than the fans.

No, the Knicks are not owned by the public. The Knicks are owned by the shareholders of the company, of which I'm the majority shareholder.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

Must we always look for the political opinions of our businessmen precisely where they suppose their immediate pecuniary advantage to be found?

vested interest

When you see a situation you cannot understand, look for the financial interest.

I think people in China like to see R&F and how we play. I think it's a very important part of football that the fans enjoy coming to the game.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

All my mates are West Ham supporters; I went there at 15.

The fans at Upton Park are great.

I know there are millions of football fans who love this game, but can see the world outside it.

The Palermo supporters are very passionate, but the Azzurri fans are unique.

English fans and the English atmospheres are special.

HCL and Wipro are largely controlled by one family, so a strife with the board is not possible.

The crowd are more understanding at Anfield than at any other football ground.

I love the game. I love to watch. I watch it with my kids. I'm able to divorce the beauty of the athletics from the corporate entity that is the National Football League.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

Celtic fans are some of the greatest supporters I know.

The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.