Wayne Huizenga famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't want to be just a voice on the phone. I have to get to know these guys face-to-face and develop a sincere relationship. That way, if we run into problems in a deal, it doesn't get adversarial. We trust each other and have the confidence we can work things out.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Inspirational #Running #Voice
If youâ€™re going to be an entrepreneurâ€¦ itâ€™s not all textbook. Itâ€™s gut feeling, itâ€™s intuition, itâ€™s a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personalityâ€¦
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Thinking #Entrepreneur #Personality
The good things take care of themselves. We want to find all the negatives.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Inspirational #Care #Want
Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Overcoming #Hardship #Obstacles
My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Father #Entrepreneur #Said
I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#People #Missing #Atmosphere
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Philosophy #Competition #Littles
We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Taken #Mean #Competition
The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company that's growing fast. Shareholders made a lot of money. If you invested $25,000 from January 1987 to January 1994, you'd have more than a million dollars. I get a lot of personal satisfaction from that.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Moving #Growing #Satisfaction
I'm not leaving until you say yes.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Leaving #Insightful
Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Reality #Winning #World
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Family #Nuts #Tree
I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.
-- Wayne Huizenga

#Passion #Hard Work #People

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