"I don't care how brilliant you are, " says Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots.
They will never make their team as valuable as the Patriots Robert Kraft.
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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is a former board member of the Boston Fed.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft is in the trophy room at Gillette Stadium, playing host at his usual pre-game party.
For Robert Kraft it all started in 1971 on the cold, hard metal benches of a sad-sack football stadium in Foxboro, Mass.
The group includes Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots and Sen.
On Saturday, present were two owners representing the opposite ends of their spectrum: the optimistic Robert Kraft and the pessimistic Jerry Richardson .
During this time Imbriano worked for team owners Robert Kraft and his son Jonathan, among the smartest and most highly respected owners in sports.
Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner and a man who helped negotiate the latest collective bargaining agreement, says it will basically be flat.
But it took Jerry Jones of the Cowboys, Robert Kraft of the Patriots and even George Steinbrenner of the Yankees years to figure it out.
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Kraft usually invests on "word of mouth, phone call, someone on a road show who makes a connection, " says Robert Kraft, president international of the Boston-based firm.
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Current Patriots owner Robert Kraft said he was thrilled to have the Gillette name on his stadium, but former Patriots owner Victor Kiam must be spinning in his grave.
Current Patriots owner Robert Kraft Robert Kraft said he was thrilled to have the Gillette name on his stadium, but former Patriots owner Victor Kiam Victor Kiam must be spinning in his grave.
More so than in other sports, the successful pro football business model calls for strong, centralized decision making, either from the owner or his designated proxy (think Robert Kraft and Jerry Jones, with their six combined Super Bowl rings).
"If you want to sustain success in this league, you need good ownership, a good coach and a good quarterback, " said Robert Kraft, owner of the Patriots, whose teams have played in seven AFC Championship games and made five Super Bowl appearances.
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Owners such as Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft have called on concessions such as the players accepting more financial responsibility for new stadiums being built, which the owners say will generate more revenues that will trickle down to the players.
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Local revenues have grown 20% annually in the last five years, thanks mainly to the entrepreneurial efforts of owners like the Cowboys' Jerry Jones, the Washington Redskins' Daniel Snyder and the Patriots' Robert Kraft, whose teams, combined, account for 20% of the league's local revenue.
She managed the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation and the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation, which contributed millions of dollars to charities across the United States and in Israel, focusing on everything from education to poverty to cancer research.
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