Pakistani - Businessman | July 18, 1950 -
I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.
Shahid Khan
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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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I've said this before: a homeless guy in Detroit has more mojo than a millionaire in Jacksonville.
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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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You balance sport and business by having a sustainable model for a club and by winning. Because winning makes people feel better.
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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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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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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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