“Surround yourself with good people,” was just one secret to success revealed by legendary restaurateur Norman Brinker to a crowd of 200 businesspeople in May at TCU’s first Entrepreneurial Summit — a networking and idea-sharing event hosted by the James A. Ryffel Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

The 70-year-old chairman of Brinker International then underlined the thought by alluding to an accident that almost killed him several years earlier. “Surround yourself with good people; setbacks such as injuries are only temporary, but stupidity is forever.”

The all-day event included keynote speaker Kenny Trout, the founder and former CEO of Excel Communications, a company he started with Austin entrepreneur Steve Smith. Along with his wife Sarah, the latter made a $10 million gift to TCU, the largest by any living donor in TCU’s history. It will go toward the Sarah and Steve Smith Entrepreneurs Hall, to break ground north of Tandy Hall this fall.