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Larry Miller

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2021-02-21

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1. “I was upsessed with doing everything I could and accomplishing as much as I could. It was difficult for me to go home with work undone. I wanted it to be done for the next day. A lot of people go through the motions with little sense of urgency. I had an extreme sense of urgency. A body shop would call in order twenty one parts if I could only find nineteen 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.”

   2021-02-21 · Founders · #168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “My energy and whatever talent I had been blessed with. It scared me. The feeling was so overwhelming that I stopped what I was doing to ponder the matter. I decided I had to be extremely good at something, and the thing I was best at was being a Toyota Parts manager. That night I worked until ten PM. It was the start of my ninety hour a week work schedule. From that moment on, I began working from seven thirty in the morning until nine, ten or eleven at night six days a week. I did this for twenty years. I reasoned that other dealers had the same parts and roughly the same prices to offer. I believe service and hustle were the things that would set me apart. I would simply outwork them. I would become so good that it could not be denied.”

   2021-02-21 · Founders · #168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “I can remember the moment my life changed forever. I had an epiphany one morning, and nearly every detail of that moment is burned into the hard drive of my brain. It was march nineteen seventy one, and I was at work, managing the parts department at a Toyota dealership in Colorado. I had just taken a parts order over the phone from a body shop, and I was checking to see what parts I had in stock when, like a bucket of cold water, it hit me. Here I was twenty seven years old, married with two children and one on the way, and I was responsible for raising and supporting those children, providing food and shelter and college and housing, and much more while preparing for old age and retirement, and I realized I had nothing to fall back on. I had no college education, no special training. All I had was”

   2021-02-21 · Founders · #168 Larry Miller (Driven: An Autobiography) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source