August 3rd, 2007The Onion satirizes Buffett in a podcast entitled “New Jimmy Buffett Song ‘Cold Weather and Personal Responsibility’ Disappoints Long-Time Fans.”
Listen here.
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August 2nd, 2007The Margaritaville Cafe under construction in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, will open within 2-3 months, according to the Glendale Star:
Westgate City Center is planning big things, and some big things have already happened at the sports/retail/entertainment venue in Glendale.
Planning to open in the next two or three months are McFarlane’s, a collectibles store, Shane’s Rib Shack, and Margaritaville.
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July 28th, 2007The Biloxi City Council has approved plans for the Margaritaville Casino that was announced a couple weeks back. The Sun Herald has the story: “Margaritaville On The Way – $700M resort plans August groundbreaking”
A tropical breeze blew into Biloxi this week when the City Council approved plans for Margaritaville Casino.
“Pending permit approvals, groundbreaking on Margaritaville in Biloxi will be in August,” said Jacqueline Peterson, senior corporate manager of communications for Harrah’s Entertainment.
Harrah’s, which owns the Grand Biloxi and Casino Magic, is building the $700 million resort on the beach in partnership with Pascagoula-born, world-renowned singer Jimmy Buffett. The resort is targeted to open in 2010.
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July 6th, 2007The International Herald Tribune has a good article on Jimmy Buffett’s business empire: “Spotlight: Margaritaville is Jimmy Buffett’s empire”
Buffett said he owed much of his business acumen to the early days of his career, when, as a reporter for Billboard, the music magazine, he learned that a knowledge of business was a necessity for performing artists. The reason, he said, was that the music industry was not structured to meet the artist’s best interests.
He has also taken a page out of the book of another Buffett: Warren, the billionaire investor and a longtime friend. Jimmy Buffett said he valued the concept of “management in place” that he learned from watching Berkshire Hathaway: Hire competent people, then “just let them do it.”
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July 5th, 2007Time Magazine asked their readers for 10 questions to ask Jimmy Buffett. Here are a couple of them:
Q: Is it still fun? Be honest.
A:Yeah. I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t fun. You know, I just played a show in Virginia where 26,000 people stood in the rain to hear us. That makes a mark on you. We’re showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.
Q: After all your success, what’s left?
A: When it is all said and done, I am going to teach. There comes a point where you want to share your wisdom if you get to do the things I’ve done. Of course, if you want to see me teach, I don’t think I will be at Fargo in February. You might have to find me at the University of Hawaii.
Read all of the questions and answers here.
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