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Jerry Jones: Cowboys were losing $1 million a month before I took over
By David Moore / Reporter
5:31 pm on November 9, 2012
Jerry Jones was granted a brief respite Friday from questions about the Cowboys losing record and Jimmy Johnson’s barbs to accept an award.
The owner of the Cowboys received the Murphy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship at a luncheon at the Hilton Anatole. Herb Kelleher, F. Trammell Crow, Nelson Bunker Hunt and H. Ross Perot Sr. are among the 10 previous honorees in this award presented by the University of North Texas.
Jones didn’t field questions before or after the event. In his acceptance speech, which ran just under five minutes, he spoke of sitting around the kitchen table growing up and talking about business with his parents.
Jones said he wrote his master’s thesis on the role of communication in modern day football and mentioned how the Cowboys were losing $1 million a month when he purchased the franchise in 1989.
“I came to an area where I always had an interest, but I knew that Santa Claus didn’t put the tricycle under the Christmas tree,’’ Jones told the crowd. “You really did have to go out and create something, you had to work.’’
Jones thanked his wife, Gene, his sons Stephen and Jerry Jr. and his daughter Charlotte, saying much of the credit he receives comes from their ideas and execution. He wrapped up his speech with his response to those who ask the key to his success as a salesman.
“I say there are five things that make you successful as a salesman,’’ Jones said. “One, ask for the money.
“And I forgot the other four.’’
By David Moore / Reporter
5:31 pm on November 9, 2012
Jerry Jones was granted a brief respite Friday from questions about the Cowboys losing record and Jimmy Johnson’s barbs to accept an award.
The owner of the Cowboys received the Murphy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship at a luncheon at the Hilton Anatole. Herb Kelleher, F. Trammell Crow, Nelson Bunker Hunt and H. Ross Perot Sr. are among the 10 previous honorees in this award presented by the University of North Texas.
Jones didn’t field questions before or after the event. In his acceptance speech, which ran just under five minutes, he spoke of sitting around the kitchen table growing up and talking about business with his parents.
Jones said he wrote his master’s thesis on the role of communication in modern day football and mentioned how the Cowboys were losing $1 million a month when he purchased the franchise in 1989.
“I came to an area where I always had an interest, but I knew that Santa Claus didn’t put the tricycle under the Christmas tree,’’ Jones told the crowd. “You really did have to go out and create something, you had to work.’’
Jones thanked his wife, Gene, his sons Stephen and Jerry Jr. and his daughter Charlotte, saying much of the credit he receives comes from their ideas and execution. He wrapped up his speech with his response to those who ask the key to his success as a salesman.
“I say there are five things that make you successful as a salesman,’’ Jones said. “One, ask for the money.
“And I forgot the other four.’’
