“I wanted to learn how the business worked. I wanted to see how people ...” — B. J. Armstrong Quote

I wanted to learn how the business worked. I wanted to see how people got drafted, how players got traded, how they got picked up in free agency, how the salary cap worked, how do you manage an organization, how do you negotiate contracts. The Bulls gave me an excellent opportunity to answer all the questions that I wanted to ask.

Individual success comes as a result of team success.

I played, but I never got a chance to see how the business worked. How the NBA offices and other teams worked. I learned that when I was an assistant General Manager for five years.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

This is a business of love and labor.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.