Wayne Huizenga
Wayne Huizenga
Harry Wayne Huizengais an American businessman and entrepreneur. He has been involved in the founding of three Fortune 500 corporations and is responsible for six New York Stock Exchange listed companies. He has also been an owner of three top tier professional sports franchises...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth29 December 1937
CountryUnited States of America
moving growing satisfaction
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.
taken mean competition
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.
people missing atmosphere
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.
father entrepreneur said
My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur
hardship overcoming obstacles
Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.
inspirational care want
The good things take care of themselves. We want to find all the negatives.
philosophy competition littles
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.
thinking entrepreneur personality
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…
inspirational running voice
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.
life
I busted my butt all my life building companies.