Wayne Huizenga Quotations

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

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?

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.

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

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

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You don't make any money sitting in traffic.

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.

We're going to take a pretty tough position on that this year. These guys, in general, they're all making a lot of money. It doesn't do us any good to pick somebody and then not have them get to camp. That's going to be very important to us. I personally am going to insist that that person we sign has got to be in camp to start.

We've got more to do there yet. There are still things we didn't ask at the first meeting. It's not something we need to rush into. A lot of it is going to depend on Nick's schedule because he has his own thing to worry about now.

Bryan has experience in almost every operational position in the organization, and that background gives him an unsurpassed perspective.

There are still a lot of Dolphins fans who have never had the opportunity to get to the Hall of Fame,

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

We've got one of those karaoke machines, ... and the last night we were all singing on it. We finally got Nick loosened up a little bit where he'd sing. I think finally toward the end he relaxed a little bit.

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

We think the teams want to play there, we think the fans want to come there and we think the sponsors want to be there. That's pretty much the message that we gave the owners.

We've come a long way in the last three years, ... Like I said, the name of the game in this business is being able to sell more cars than anyone else on the Internet or not on the Internet and be the low-cost provider.

We love our city and we love our area. We think the weather is the best. We think we have the best hotels, the best restaurants, the best beaches and the best golf courses.

You guys know better than anybody that there are good days and there are bad days, ... I'm not saying we're going to the playoffs this year. But it sure is nice to win the first one.

We're very enthused and excited about having the opportunity to once again show off South Florida, ... We love our city and we love our area. We think the weather is the best. We think we have the best hotels, the best restaurants, the best beaches and the best golf courses.

We spent a week together earlier this summer, ... I got up at 6 a.m. to work out on the boat and he's in the office on the boat looking at film. He just works nonstop.

Every time a Super Bowl comes to South Florida, it's worth about $350-to-$400 million in economic impact. If we've got $350 million in '07 and another $350 million in '10, and it might be more than that, we're looking at ... $800 million in impact to South Florida, which is huge.

It's not only baseball, it's all sports, ... The fans want a winning team and in order to have a winning team you end up with a huge payroll.

It's not going to happen as soon as a lot of people say it's going to.

the best weather, the best beaches, the best water and the best golf courses.

The fans seem to be liking it. There's a lot of excitement in town. Everybody you bump into has something good to say, and they're excited about the job Nick is doing. Things are going good.

I know they don't want to stay there, but we will see what happens.

I know there are some short sellers out there, but that just makes us work all the more,

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

I haven't heard anything about what they're doing,

I don't know how to describe it, really. It needed something and I think Nick has that something.

I am not sure where, but I can just tell you that shortly, two or three years from now, we will have a Hall of Fame for the Dolphins,

I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

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

I'm not leaving until you say yes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The good things take care of themselves. We want to find all the negatives.

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.

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…

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.