Larry Miller Quotes
18 quotes from Larry Miller — Businessman who built the Larry H..
“Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than ten years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.”
“Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.”
“Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.”
“Women are the most powerful magnet in the universe; all men are cheap metal.”
“I don't want a clean living guy in the White House with his finger on the button. He thinks he's going right to heaven.”
“Everything's nerve-wracking; you really shouldn't be in show business if you can't stand situations that are nerve-wracking.”
“Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.”
“Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than ten years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions. "How old are you?" "I'm four and a half." You get into your teens; now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number. "How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16." Then the great day of your life; you become 21. Then you turn 30. What happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk. Then you're pushing 40. You reach 50; then you make it to 60. By then you've built up so much speed, you hit 70. After that, it's a day by day thing. You hit Wednesday... You get into your 80's; you hit lunch, you hit 4:30. My Grandmother won't even buy green bananas. "Well, it's an investment, you know, and maybe a bad one." Into the 90's, you start going backwards. "I was just 92." Then a strange thing happens; if you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half.”
“Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.”
“I don't want a clean living guy in the White House with his finger on the button. He thinks he's going right to heaven. You want to feel safe with a leader. Give me a guy who fights in bars and cheats on his wife. This is a man who wants to put off Judgment Day as long as possible.”
“Everything's nerve-wracking; you really shouldn't be in show business if you can't stand situations that are nerve-wracking, and you just have to learn to push that aside or rip it off and graft it onto your positive, creative energy.”
“I reasoned that other dealers had the same parts and roughly the same prices to offer. I believed service and hustle were the things that would set me apart. I would simply outwork them.”
“It's a sad death, because I think his working so much caused his illness and then prevented him from caring for himself.”
“I begin my story this way because it is a useful backdrop for any discussion of my life. It colors so much of what I did and so much of what happened to me. It was central to everything, whether it was working as a delivery man or building a private business or growing into an entrepreneur or buying the Utah Jazz or, as I'm sorry to say, neglecting my family to do all of the above.”
“I had an extreme sense of urgency. A body shop would call and order 21 parts. If I could only find 19 parts, I was ticked off. If I was five minutes late, I was upset because I had created a system that wasn't more responsive.”
“If you want to eliminate half of the competition, show up. If you want to eliminate three-fourths of the competition, show up on time. If you want to eliminate 90 percent of the competition, show up with a good attitude. You've got to outwork them. If you're going to accomplish extraordinary things, you've got to put forth extraordinary effort.”
“I would say to him every time he'd buy a new dealership, "Why do you want another one? We've got enough." And he said, "Because I can do so much good with it. I can provide jobs for people and I can do things that make the world a better place.”
“The success and the money and the worldly things that we have are not where I count my wealth. My wealth is counted in relationships, being able to provide jobs for people where they can support their family and live good lives.”
