Tom Hicks Biography

Tom Hicks, Businessman

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Occup.	Businessman
From	USA
Born	December 26, 1946 Dallas, Texas
Age	77 years

Tom Hicks is an American businessman and also entrepreneur that is best known for his operate in the private equity and also sports industries. He was born upon December 23, 1946, in Dallas, Texas, and went to the College of Texas at Austin, where he gained a bachelor's degree in finance.

After graduating from college, Hicks started his occupation in finance, helping different companies in the banking and financial investment fields. In 1984, he co-founded Hicks & Haas, a leveraged buyout company, with his company partner Robert Haas.

Over the following couple of decades, Hicks constructed a reputation as one of the top exclusive equity capitalists in the United States, leading successful purchases of companies in a variety of markets, consisting of telecommunications, energy, and also consumer goods. In 1998, he co-founded Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, which turned into one of the largest exclusive equity firms in the world.

Along with his operate in financing, Hicks was likewise associated with the sports industry. In 1998, he acquired a minority stake in the Texas Rangers baseball group, and also later on came to be the bulk proprietor. Under his ownership, the Rangers won two American League pennants and showed up on the planet Series for the first time in franchise business background.

Hicks likewise possessed the Dallas Stars hockey group, and also was a co-owner of Liverpool Football Club in England. Nonetheless, his possession of Liverpool was marred by dispute and also financial problems, and he ultimately offered the club in 2010.

Hicks has been active in philanthropy throughout his career, sustaining a variety of reasons associated with education and learning, health care, as well as the arts. He has actually also been associated with politics, serving as the finance chairman for George W. Bush's 2000 governmental project.

Today, Hicks is relinquished active company and also lives in Dallas, Texas. He is remembered for his payments to the personal equity and sports industries, in addition to his kind and political work.

Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Tom.

Related authors: George W. Bush (President), George Gillett (Businessman), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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12 Famous quotes by Tom Hicks

"Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching"

"The best thing we can do is develop our own"

"You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying"

"If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you"

"What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team"

"We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year"

"Pitching is a priority"

"My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win"

"We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington"

"There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top"

"I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country"

"I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns"