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Principles of TheHub’s Operation

Quotes and Statements from Successful Entrepreneurs.

Constructed by Marc Caccavale, Founder, Partner, TheHub Holdings Inc.

TheHub Holdings Incorporated observes and utilizes applicable insights of entrepreneurs and visionaries from the past and present. These principles, practices and philosophies are embedded in our being. Organizations and individuals that do business with theHub will witness them in action. We extract quotes in our ongoing studies that we identify that we have alignment with.

“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster, or more economically has his future and his fortune in his fingertips”.

J. Paul Getty

Getty Oil Company

“No matter the obstacle, find a way through it”.

Sam Zelle

Billionaire, Real Estate Mogul

“If you get knocked down and you fail…and I can tell you about my failures. I’ve had alot of em. But if somebody would ask me what it was, I had the ability to pick myself up, dust myself off, and get goin again”.

Ken Langone

Billionaire, Businessman

“I have a passion to win, and the will to win is the will to survive”

Sumner Redstone

Viacom

“One big part of the discovery of what is ‘normal’ in industry depends on managerial genius discovering better ways of doing things”.

“Plan day and night, probably for years, on something which will best suit the public, and then how it should be made”.

“A business ought to start small and build itself up out of its earnings”

“The point that I wish to impress here is that it is impossible to get a product on which one may concentrate unless an unlimited amount of study is given beforehand. It is not just an afternoon’s work”.

Henry Ford

Ford Motor Comapny

“Focus your business on things that do not change or change at a glacial pace”.

“Focus on what remains steady and consistent”.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon

The four cultural attributes of Amazon

1. Customer obsession instead of competitor obsession.
2. Willingness to think long term.
3. Eagerness to invent.
4. Taking professional pride in operational excellence.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away”.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Author

"So in business a lot of things are folklore. They are done because they were done yesterday. And the day before. What it means is, if you are willing to ask a lot of questions and think about things and work really hard, you can learn business pretty fast. It’s not the hardest thing in the world. It’s not rocket science."

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there you can move mountains”

Steve Jobs

Apple

“How do you know the right direction? Ultimately it comes down to taste. It’s a matter of trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done. And then try to bring those into what you are doing”.

“I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it is inside a box. A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody is going to see it. When your a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through”.

Steve Jobs

Apple

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back towards the technology - not the other way around”.

Steve Jobs

Apple

“Whatever service or product you are selling, make sure it is of the highest quality in its category that you can find. You don’t want to be in the selling business. You want to be in the re-order business”.

Paul Dejoria

Founder, Paul Mitchell Hair Products

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken”.

Elon Musk

Pay Pal, Tesla, Space X

“Every system and app we create must anticipate the needs and desires of its users. Generally follow the 80/20 rule: A product should make it simple and seamless for users to perform or access what they do or use 80% of the time. The rest may be hidden behind links or menus”.

Bill Forsyth

Founder, CEO, The Hub Holdings Inc.

“This fact that the Standard Oil Company always kept in mind: that they must render the best service and be content with a largely increasing volume of the business, rather than increase the profit so as to tempt others to compete with them.”

When discussing prices with subordinates, he frequently reminded them, “We want to continue in reason, that policy which gives us the largest percentage of the business.”

John D. Rockefeller

Standard Oil

“If you gave a movie in a lackluster theatre, you will beat someone with a lousy movie in a fancy theatre”.

“People don’t watch technology, they watch what technology brings into their homes”.

Sumner Redstone

CBS Corporation

“The same goes for us, even though we are in the information ‘Technology’ industry. Our customers don’t buy technology, they buy what the technology enables them to do.”

Bill Forsyth

Founder, CEO, TheHub Holdings Inc.

Ollie’s response to numerous corporate developers that criticized a developer’s post that described briefly a project he had in his mind to do, that he thought would be of value. The developer listed the technologies he intended to use. He received many negative responses.

“Some of you people respond negatively to every single post regarding software engineering. I would never work with any of you if your first thought is about why not to do something. First thought should be can it be done, how is it done, how will I do it, then should I do it. I’ll let you in on a little secret, nobody cares how your team works or what you think….At some point you will figure out that it is just as important to be able to say hey, I don’t know all the factors in this task, maybe I should hold off on judgment before I look like an ass than to say let me apply my experience to some other person, or some other team, at some organization with some other culture that I am not a part of, GEEZ!!!”.

Ollie Tinsley

Senior Software Engineer - TheHub Holdings Inc.