Jerry Jones

“The year before Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys, the team lost nine million dollars. And just a few years later, the Cowboys were making over thirty million in profit per year.”

“According to the NFL rules revenues from the boxes are not shared with other NFL owners the way ticket revenues are.”

“The first well, the first time they drill, that well is worth more than four million dollars.”

“The well outside of San Francisco would produce forty million dollars worth of gas over a two year period. Jones and McCoy had made eighty million dollars on their first two natural gas wells.”

“He was selling since he was a nine-year-old greeting customers at his family's supermarket. In college, he sold shoes from the trunk of his car. He would make up to 700 dollars selling student tickets before his college football games.”

“Jones and McCoy had drilled more than 200 wells, and they had come up empty on exactly one.”

“While an excess of self-regard is often counterproductive in its effect on cognition, it can cause some weird successes from overconfidence that happened to cause success. Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself.”

“Jerry Jones doesn't like to waste time. On the rare occasion he hits the golf course, he's been known to close a business deal by the first hole, shake hands, and then walk off saying, why would I play another four hours when the deal was done?”

“He winds up firing his friend and his coach after Jimmy Johnson won the second Superbowl and he winds up hiring another one of his friends. It's getting Barry Switzer who lasts a little bit longer, but he was more comfortable playing like a number two role.”

“And then I read they're doing over a billion dollars in revenue a year now.”

“Jones had sold one of his oil production companies in 1976 and walked away from the Red Fork sand that deal with Bill Sparks with a profit of more than fifty million dollars.”

“30 years later, Jones still owns that piece of property, which now has long been paid off. There's a Walmart that is on it, on that piece of property. And then after that, they develop this new interstate highway. So this piece of land that he buys, they build…”

“They had a 188 luxury suites. You know how many the previous owners sold? Six... Six years later the suites are all 95 to 98% occupied profits from those suites alone over the last few years since Jones has bought the team. Fifty million dollars just from that…”

“Bomb Bright starts shopping the team because he's in dire financial distress, right? He tried to sell for one hundred eighty million dollars. He pitched 75 people before he got to Jerry Jones that said no.”

“The agreement that he signs with the company that his friends is CEO of, it allows Jones to sell gas to Arkansas, Louisiana gas company, which is also known as ArcLaw at a price that was far higher than what the utility was paying others in the field. So he ma…”

“One of Pat's ideas was his next promotion was nearly unheard of in 1954. A live, on-site radio show that mixed music with heavy endorsements for the products in the stores.”

“If you're going to have long-term partnership with Jerry, they say, whether it's in oil and gas, whether it's in football, you have to be comfortable being a number two.”

“So I went over to Brentwood, about 20 or 30 miles from San Francisco, and I bought 25 lots, like I was going to build 25 houses, except I drilled four gas wells, and those four gas wells in 18 months paid me enough money for me to buy the Dallas Cowboys.”

“The group hit their next well, and the next one, and the next. In all, they hit oil in their first 15 wells that they drilled.”

“Now it's, you know, worth probably somewhere between eight to ten billion dollars is the rumor.”

“In 1987, Jones and his partner sell it for a hundred and seventy five million dollars, which means if you calculate how much money they took out of the business, plus the sales price or Combo production had walked away with more than three hundred million doll…”

“Jerry Jones was a 76 and he said, yes, he paid one hundred and forty million today. That's worth ten billion dollars, not including all the money, you know, and the opportunities that came from that.”

“Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys. He paid one hundred and forty million for they're worth ten billion today. 75 people turned down the opportunity to buy the Cowboys before Jerry Jones did.”