Huizenga Quotes

Sometimes you have to cut corners until you get a circle.

Sometimes it is better to cut corners and get a circle instead of a square.

If you don't have the skill, have the confidence

There is one thing we can all agree on, though. Had Huizenga been at Blockbuster in 2000 when Reed Hastings offered to sell Netflix to Blockbuster for $50 million, he would have “damn sure” bought it—but for a lot less after he finished negotiating. And he would have convinced Hastings to take a pay cut to come to work for him!

Indeed, though Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were the first and most important casualties of this case, they were not the only ones. There was Simpson’s family, those decent and loyal women in yellow who endured this long trial for a man they loved, and of course those two children, who would grow up without a mother. There were Simpson’s friends, many of whom came to realize how blind they had been to O.J.’s narcissism and brutality. There were the peripheral figures, like Shipp and Huizenga, who degraded themselves on the altar of celebrity. (Shipp, at least, came to realize what he had done.) And there was even the public at large, whose passions and biases were inflamed by the events Simpson had set in motion. None of this mattered to O.J. Simpson, because, as he had done his entire life, he cared only about himself.

Huizenga tried to get you where you could taste the deal, and then whisk it away.