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 had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.

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?

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

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

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