Top 39 Huizenga Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Huizenga

#1. If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

#2. In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.

#3. 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

#4. You don't make any money sitting in traffic.

Wayne Huizenga

#5. Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

Wayne Huizenga

#6. 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

#7. Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.

Wayne Huizenga

#8. You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in a much different fashion, privately held in some of those things, and it's really putting out a great product.

Bill Huizenga

#9. Managers are a dime a dozen, but leaders are priceless

H. Wayne Huizenga

#10. You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

Wayne Huizenga

#11. Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

Bill Huizenga

#12. My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

Bill Huizenga

#13. If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

Wayne Huizenga

#14. I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.

Bill Huizenga

#15. 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

#16. A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.

Wayne Huizenga

#17. 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

#18. I don't really think about my work in terms of whatever money it makes. That's just a bonus. I'm just going to do the work anyway, so whatever comes back is good with me.

Kevin Huizenga

#19. 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 ...

Wayne Huizenga

#20. I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

Bill Huizenga

#21. Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Wayne Huizenga

#22. I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.

Bill Huizenga

#23. I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.

Wayne Huizenga

#24. Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

Wayne Huizenga

#25. My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

Wayne Huizenga

#26. 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

#27. I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

Wayne Huizenga

#28. Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.

Wayne Huizenga

#29. I don't buy cars I can't drive.

Wayne Huizenga

#30. I enjoy building more than managing.

Wayne Huizenga

#31. I busted my butt all my life building companies.

Wayne Huizenga

#32. I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.

Wayne Huizenga

#33. I really like the idea of music when it has form and then sort of loses its form, or becomes noise, and then comes back again ... That's how I think of it: structure turning into noise and coming back around again.

Kevin Huizenga