Shahid Khan
It's not an easy thing to captive-breed a falcon. You need to take extreme care of its diet and exercise and keep it close to its natural environment. Whenever the birds take ill, I only use Ayurveda to cure them.Collection: Diet
If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.Collection: Success
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.Collection: Architecture
There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.Collection: Dreams
I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country.Collection: Religion
I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire.
Throwing money on the fire is normally not the solution to every problem. You put the fire out by listening to the people who are smarter than you are.
It doesn't matter how hard you work, there are forces that kind of prevent you from being the best you can be.
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.
Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.
I've said this before: a homeless guy in Detroit has more mojo than a millionaire in Jacksonville.
The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.
To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.
I love it. In the NFL, you win or you lose, and the money still shows up.
Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.
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.
Nobody cares about '60 Minutes.' Everybody cares about the Jaguars. Isn't that amazing?
Discretion is a very valuable asset.
You go through life and learn valuable lessons.
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.
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.
Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.
I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I discovered the Four Seasons brand many years ago. There is a certain magic.
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.
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.
I almost felt like I knew London before the first time I went there.
People will stop me on the street, and they know - Jaguars. It's a certain street recognition we didn't have years ago.
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.
As a fan, there are times you get frustrated as to what you think a team ought to be doing.
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin.
Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.
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.
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.
I feel I have to play a role to help Jacksonville achieve big things, to achieve its potential. There is opportunity here, and sometimes it isn't always evident, but it's there.
We have made a great effort to stabilize the Jaguars, and London has played a key part in that. We see the Jaguars as an engine and catalyst for the overall growth of Jacksonville, and I believe we have proven our commitment beyond a doubt.
Jacksonville has exceptionally good talent in the areas of modality activities.
I have a huge affinity with London, and I have a lot of relatives here - now and before I was born. I pretty much look at London as the centre of the universe.
I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that's what makes the world go around.
The great thing about the NFL is that you get into it for love, and you realise it is a fabulous business.
The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.
Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would walk to the front of the plane and say, 'You're looking for me. Just take me; it will be easier for everybody else.
I can control my destiny; I control my life.
I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, 'Shad is what we are calling you.' You go with the flow.
You balance sport and business by having a sustainable model for a club and by winning. Because winning makes people feel better.