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I would encourage someone to go to Brazil and try to do business there. BRIC countries get a lot of hype, but business there is brutal.
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I love it. In the NFL, you win or you lose, and the money still shows up.
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The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.
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In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so interwoven that it would be very difficult to do that. But government policies force us to look for ways to unscramble it.
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Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.
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There's a lot of young talent. I felt strongly that we wanted somebody with a great football mind who'd make it their mission to succeed. And a coach, likewise. Somebody young, energetic, open.
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I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.
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When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty obvious to me what we had to do. But the football side was like the Holy Grail.
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One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.
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Toronto is a world-class city. You don't have a debate here about immigration because you need it to just maintain your pensions: that's dependent on people coming in to fund that. And again, I don't want to be controversial, but I think the average education level in Canada is probably higher than in the United States.
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In just my interaction, I go to factories, and I talk to our employees. And in Canada, they have had a least a year or two more education. It's like, almost, I never run into anybody who hasn't finished high school. And in the United States, you have a lot who dropped out of 11th grade or whatever.
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I discovered the Four Seasons brand many years ago. There is a certain magic.
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In the auto industry, I spent years perfecting processes. Now, the successes and failures don't get the kind of publicity obviously NFL football does.
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We have the talent in place, and I think if you are a Jaguars fan, you should be excited, and you should have some expectations that we're going to be a sustainable, winning organization now.
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I almost felt like I knew London before the first time I went there.
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People will stop me on the street, and they know - Jaguars. It's a certain street recognition we didn't have years ago.
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I really believe in fate or destiny, and I believe the Jacksonville Jaguars were my destiny. I believe, when it's all said and done, it couldn't have worked out better for me... man, oh man, this was just perfect.
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As a fan, there are times you get frustrated as to what you think a team ought to be doing.
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As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
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You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.
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I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country.
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You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin.
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I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.
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Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.
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You have to take the time to live in a place to collect all the pieces, develop a vision. You can't just go to Home Depot and buy everything.
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Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.
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Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.
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If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.
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There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.
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I've gotten to know them and love everything about the people of Jacksonville. There is an energy and a youth factor here that you don't typically associate with Florida. There's a real vitality. It's energizing.
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