Wayne Huizenga Quotes
120 Wayne Huizenga Quotes (H Wayne Huzienga, Blockbuster Quotes)
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If you say you’re going to do something, be darn sure you do it.
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I like to build things – a hundred stores, a thousand stores.
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My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur.
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One unhappy customer will tell ten people and then you’ll have eleven unhappy customers.
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[On being offered a deal on a video store when he rarely watched movies and didn’t own a VCR before blockbuster] You know I get 20 of these a week. Come on John [Melk]. A video store? I’m not interested.
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I’m not leaving until you say yes.
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I’m not looking for a job. I don’t want a job.
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I don’t need any more money. I’ve got enough money, but the challenge is to make money.
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You got to do what you think is best.
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You make the decisions you got to make.
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If you believe in something you go do it.
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To me building a company that makes a lot of money but doesn’t give a return to its shareholders, that’s not success.
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An important part of being an entrepreneur is a gut instinct that allows you to believe in your heart that something will work even though everyone else says it will not.
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If you’re going to be an entrepreneur… it’s not all textbook. It’s gut feeling, it’s intuition, it’s a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality…
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You must be able to execute to succeed.
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[On his only competitive edge] The willingness to work harder than his competition.
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Deal making is negotiating…
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We want people to join our team, not just sell us a company.
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There is a certain time in every deal where you have to trust your gut instincts.
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You can’t be all things to all people. You find something that you are passionate about and you work on that.
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Once you fall into the opportunity, you have to take advantage of it and make something happen.
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I’m a better builder than an operator.
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If you can double every year and if your stock can double every year, let me tell you something, you’ve got a lot of people that are enthused and excited, you’ve got shareholders that are happy. You’ve got your neighbors and relatives that are happy. Everybody that is working in the company is charged and excited and they’re all making a lot of money.
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[On Blockbuster] People made more money here in two or three years than they could have made in a lifetime anywhere else.
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[On sports teams] The fans think that the owners make a lot of money.
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[In 2009] Every day, Washington is making decisions it simply has no business making, deciding which companies continue and which ones fold up. That’s not capitalism, and it’s certainly not a free market.
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Government bureaucrats making their own decisions about the businesses they run. These people who frequently have little or no corporate experience, who’ve seldom had to worry about whether the choices they make today will benefit them directly or influence the prospects of the organization they work for.
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There is no such thing as a limit on the number of visionaries out there.
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The more regulated we become, the less free we become.
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Real leaders tackle crisis and succeed… they take a risk, plan for the future, and create growth opportunities.
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I believe that organically successful companies – that is, companies that generate their own success by interacting favourably with the market – will prove themselves to be today’s truest winners.
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[In 2009] For our economy as a whole to become healthy again, we must follow the free market model. Flawed as it may be, it still undeniably provides the world’s greatest opportunity for business to survive.
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[On merging Blockbuster with Viacom] There are very few events when the participants can know, at that instant, that something monumental is about to happen. Well, this is one of those events. As you know, the main purpose of our meeting today is to vote on the Viacom merger. It’s been a long nine months since all of this got started. And there have been many ups and downs along the way. When Viacom’s stock dropped to the low twenties, I was down too. But things haven’t changed.
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[On the merger of Blockbuster with Viacom] We’ll be able to make a movie, put it in our theaters, rent it on our cable networks, and play it on our television stations. And while we’re doing that, we’ll publish the book, release the soundtrack, and make the video game, and sell them in all of our stores.
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[On leaving Blockbuster after the merger with Viacom] This is going to be tough. Despite what some people have written, there is nothing extra in this deal for me…
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[On talking about a fellow Dutchman] He’s okay, he’s a wooden shoe.
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[As a 16 year old being asked to pick up a tool shed and bring it over to a job site, and finding it didn’t fit into his cousins pickup but not wanting to disappoint his father he found a way with a never give up attitude] No, I’ve got to pick it up, my job is to pick it up and bring it back.
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I don’t care if you marry my sister, you either work or you’re out of a job.
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I don’t care what you did, you’d better do right by the customer. No matter what it took and no matter what it cost… Because if you lose that one customer you’re going to lose more customers.
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[On the garbage business] I worked 20 hours a day bar none. All the time. And I never drove main streets. I always drove the alleys and the side streets trying to find out what was happening.
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