Tilman J. Fertitta Quotes

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.

One of my strongest assets is my ability to be calm under pressure.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.

I can handle ups and downs.

One day you are up, the next down, and I have to remain calm, work, help, and learn; that is the most important.

It comes with experience and learning and knowing the game. It's not necessarily about sticking your chest out and saying, 'I'm tough.'

I've always been calm, and I'm very good in a crisis.

The one opinion that experience does for you is it keeps you cool, calm, and collected under pressure.

Learning how to be calm and centered in any situation is a skill for life, whatever you do.

There's going to be ups and downs throughout the whole year. You can't get frustrated.

I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

I think it was always there and it was maybe a matter of bringing it out. It was harder than I thought it would be and I had to try harder. I had to regain my confidence, maybe the most important thing. I have learned a lot to relax. I know what I can do now, and I do it.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

Staying composed, focused, and effective under pressure are all about your mentality. People who successfully manage crises are able to channel their emotions into producing the behavior that they want.

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

One of the hard lessons to learn in life is that there are some things you can control and some things you can't. If you want a short recipe for being frustrated and miserable, this is it: focus on things you can't control.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.