Wayne Huizenga Quote

By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming i...
WAYNE HUIZENGA

If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes car...
WAYNE HUIZENGA

Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute...
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I enjoy building more than managing.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I busted my butt all my life building companies.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Flori...
WAYNE HUIZENGA

To me, my business is my life.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I don't buy cars I can't drive.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the...
WAYNE HUIZENGA

Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I ...
WAYNE HUIZENGA

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

You don't make any money sitting in traffic.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

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

Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

I personally am going to insist that that person we sign has got to be in camp to start.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

Yes, that's even farther south than Miami, ... I'll vote for you if you do that. Save a good suite f...
WAYNE HUIZENGA

Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.
WAYNE HUIZENGA

We only acquire companies that put us in a position where we can grow,
WAYNE HUIZENGA

You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in...
BILL HUIZENGA

I remember a timeout during the Morgan Twp, game where Stella had missed six or eight in row. I told...
DAN HUIZENGA

I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some plac...
BILL HUIZENGA

Hopefully with at least a full day off, the girls can recover. We'll practice a little, but we're go...
DAN HUIZENGA

It was iffy if they would start. We really looked pretty dead at practice on Monday.
DAN HUIZENGA

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the pol...
BILL HUIZENGA

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the ...
BILL HUIZENGA

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

I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full tim...
BILL HUIZENGA

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all thin...
WAYNE DYER

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.
WAYNE ROONEY

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really lo...
WAYNE ROONEY

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
WAYNE DYER

I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no fo...
WAYNE DYER

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happ...
WAYNE GRETZKY

I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or...
LIL WAYNE

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.
LIL WAYNE

I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, film...
RANDY WAYNE

There are so many movies people make just to make money.
RANDY WAYNE

I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... ...
RANDY WAYNE

John Schneider's cool. I mean, he is the epitome of cool. To be that confident without any chip ...
RANDY WAYNE

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as ...
RANDY WAYNE

I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
RANDY WAYNE

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.
LIL WAYNE

My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I w...
WAYNE WONDER

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put i...
WAYNE WONDER

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel...
WAYNE WONDER

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm makin...
WAYNE WONDER

That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.
WAYNE WONDER

People call me Wayne Wonder and it also goes back to football because I could do mad skills with the...
WAYNE WONDER

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and...
WAYNE WONDER

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always co...
WAYNE WONDER

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. Th...
WAYNE WHITE

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there does...
WAYNE WHITE

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunn...
WAYNE WHITE

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasi...
WAYNE WHITE

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude o...
WAYNE WHITE

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
WAYNE THIEBAUD

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
WAYNE THIEBAUD

As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way...
WAYNE SWAN

Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were ...
WAYNE SWAN

We believe in the Australian promise; that if you work hard, you won't be left behind.
WAYNE SWAN

In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth ta...
WAYNE SWAN

I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle danger...
WAYNE SWAN

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don&...
WAYNE SWAN

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
WAYNE SWAN

It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the sub...
WAYNE SWAN

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to...
WAYNE SWAN

We know that a smarter Australia means a stronger Australia. An Australia able to grasp the opportun...
WAYNE SWAN

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean ...
WAYNE SWAN

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth,...
WAYNE SHORTER

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn'...
WAYNE SHORTER

I love football, football is my life.
WAYNE ROONEY

You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memo...
WAYNE ROONEY

The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
WAYNE ROONEY

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and th...
WAYNE ROONEY

Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
WAYNE ROONEY

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and ho...
WAYNE ROONEY

I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.
WAYNE ROONEY

As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what wil...
WAYNE ROONEY

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
WAYNE ROONEY

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
WAYNE ROONEY

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and t...
WAYNE ROONEY

Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having...
WAYNE ROONEY

Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red t...
WAYNE ROONEY

You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will...
WAYNE ROONEY

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they re...
WAYNE ROONEY

I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
WAYNE ROONEY

Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships ...
WAYNE ROONEY

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
WAYNE ROGERS

There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
WAYNE ROGERS

It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as a...
WAYNE ROGERS

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal ...
WAYNE ROGERS

Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
WAYNE ROGERS

Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate t...
WAYNE ROGERS

Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.
WAYNE ROGERS

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's alway...
WAYNE ROGERS

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best arou...
WAYNE ROGERS

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscri...
WAYNE ROGERS

You can't change the market; the market just is.
WAYNE ROGERS

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the...
WAYNE ROGERS

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
WAYNE ROGERS

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
WAYNE ROGERS

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that...
WAYNE ROGERS

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
WAYNE ROGERS

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition ...
WAYNE ROGERS

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.
WAYNE ROGERS

I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
WAYNE ROGERS

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those...
WAYNE ROGERS

People will always want a free lunch.
WAYNE ROGERS

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody w...
WAYNE ROGERS

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and se...
WAYNE ROGERS

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
WAYNE ROGERS

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.
WAYNE NEWTON

Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people wil...
WAYNE NEWTON

When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely an...
WAYNE NEWTON

I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nin...
WAYNE NEWTON

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But t...
WAYNE NEWTON

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was st...
WAYNE NEWTON

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
WAYNE NEWTON

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspira...
WAYNE NEWTON

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
WAYNE NEWTON

You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his mo...
WAYNE NEWTON

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it ...
WAYNE NEWTON

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
WAYNE NEWTON

I don't really believe in regrets.
WAYNE NEWTON

I've always had great faith in people.
WAYNE NEWTON

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
WAYNE NEWTON

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew th...
WAYNE NEWTON

I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
WAYNE NEWTON

Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
WAYNE NEWTON

Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was...
WAYNE NEWTON

I love taking chances.
WAYNE NEWTON

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
WAYNE NEWTON

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am toda...
WAYNE NEWTON

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ...
WAYNE NEWTON

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
WAYNE NEWTON

When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.
WAYNE NEWTON

You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
WAYNE NEWTON

I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doi...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
WAYNE MCGREGOR

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
WAYNE MCGREGOR

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, bu...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used be...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get peop...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They fee...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
WAYNE MCGREGOR

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing...
WAYNE KRAMER

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
WAYNE KRAMER

As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We l...
WAYNE KRAMER

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his...
WAYNE KRAMER

We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today...
WAYNE KRAMER

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our ow...
WAYNE KRAMER

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play any...
WAYNE KRAMER

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who ...
WAYNE KRAMER

I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever re...
WAYNE KRAMER

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about...
WAYNE KRAMER

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody ...
WAYNE KRAMER

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to le...
WAYNE KRAMER

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they ...
WAYNE KRAMER

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
WAYNE KRAMER

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they al...
WAYNE GRETZKY

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!
WAYNE GRETZKY

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, ...
WAYNE GRETZKY

And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
WAYNE GRETZKY

I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything ab...
WAYNE GRETZKY

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figu...
WAYNE GRETZKY

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
WAYNE GRETZKY

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the gam...
WAYNE GRETZKY

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.

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Wayne Huizenga

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

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