Glen Taylor
Glen Taylor
Glen A. Tayloris an American billionaire businessman who is the majority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves National Basketball Association team, owner of the Minnesota Lynx WNBA basketball team and a former member of the Minnesota Senate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth20 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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Absolutely not. We've got plenty of good guys. We've just got to get more out of them.
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It makes it difficult, but no more difficult than it has been in the past. It won't make it impossible.
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I just have to look at the long run. In the long run, we've done some really nice things. Overall our team, since I bought it 10 years ago, we've been a really good team.
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We have gotten to know Fred very well over the past few years, both as a basketball player and as a person. When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff.
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We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.
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I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.
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For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.
education
I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.
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I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
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I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.
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I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.
I don't view my opinions as the right ones; they are just different.
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When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire, we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff. We will use his many talents on both the basketball and business sides of the team.
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When I got back to Corbin with the dogs, I was glad I stayed in the K-9 program. We've got the community behind us, that's very obvious. The community wants us to have these dogs.