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I'm not leaving until you say yes.
You don't make any money sitting in traffic.
Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.
I busted my butt all my life building companies.
Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
The good things take care of themselves. We want to find all the negatives.
Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.
A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.
Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur
If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.
I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.