A Quote by Tilman J. Fertitta

We don't use consultants at Landry's. We're our consultants.

Tilman J. Fertitta

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Consultants Our Use

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Tilman J. Fertitta
American - Businessman
Born: June 25, 1957

People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up with the critical concepts behind strategy. The history of strategy suggests there are lots of things consultants can do for a company that the company can't typically do for itself.

Walter Kiechel

I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

Jesse James Garrett

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

Robert Reich

I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.

Joseph Kosinski

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

Andrew Thomas

Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.

Mark V. Hurd

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

Norman Ralph Augustine

Pro Publica distorts the relationship between organizations and their consultants.

Scott Raab

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

Warren Buffett

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

Ralph Nader

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.

Scott Adams

Governor Pawlenty's commitment to faith and family is not a product of coaching by campaign consultants.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

Felix Rohatyn

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?

Mark Steyn

I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right - abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries - I feel that I have to have my say.