Tilman J. Fertitta Quotes

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

I absolutely do not think it's a foregone conclusion that we're going to lose our coach. Tom Herman loves the University of Houston. He's happy to be coaching at the University of Houston, and I think there are only a few places Tom Herman would even consider.

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four episodes for them, but they kept me on, and I was like, 'Sweet! I'm still employed! That's awesome!' And then, they let me know that they were considering having me for the second half of the season.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.

If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.

There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

I am going to use this secretary for as long as I need her. Now you go back and tell that to your superiors, and don’t come back.

You want to show your people that you value them, and you're not going to hurt them just to get a little more money in the short term. Not furloughing people breeds loyalty. It breeds a sense of security. It breeds a sense of trust.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

Kentucky is the best job in basketball coaching. Why would I leave?

I had a good contract at Southampton, the managers in the Premier League are very well paid, but in football you need ambition.

The University of Texas was very good to Will Muschamp and my family.

It's kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you're already with.