Bruce Halle Quotes

102 Bruce Halle Quotes

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It’s not because we were brilliant or smart. We were just lucky. And it’s sometimes better to be lucky than smart, because you’re never that smart.
Bruce Halle

[On his first goal for Discount Tire] To focus on customer satisfaction. To sell five tires a day.
Bruce Halle

[On how he built Discount Tires – in 2011 having 820 stores and an annual revenue over $3 billion.] I think of myself as an ordinary guy, who goes to work every day and has been lucky enough to live as long as I have, and I have been blessed to have beautiful people around me. People sometimes say, ‘Gee, how did you do what you do? How did you build the company?’
Bruce Halle

Well, I worked at it for 50 years… You do the things that anybody did when they started a business. You sweep the floors. You wash the windows. You clean the bathrooms. You talk to all the customers. You create some advertising programs. You pay the rent and try and make it work and little by little, all the pieces kind of come together.
Bruce Halle

Find something to like in everyone. Give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Negative thoughts are a waste of time. Be kind, and have a passion for humility.
Bruce Halle

[On an award in 2002] I never even knew I was being considered for it.
Bruce Halle

Be honest.
Bruce Halle

Work hard.
Bruce Halle

Have fun.
Bruce Halle

Be grateful.
Bruce Halle



Pay forward.
Bruce Halle

Success comes from focusing on what each person owes to his family, to future employees and to the next customer coming in the door.
Bruce Halle

I personally scout out the locations for each store, and the company supplies the capital to buy or lease the property, build the store and provide the inventory and equipment. The store manager is responsible for hiring, training, marketing, scheduling, customer service and cost control – the same roles I had with my first store more than 50 years ago.
Bruce Halle

[On vintage tire posters.] I didn’t even know they existed and I started collecting them. It makes perfect art for our company.
Bruce Halle

I love them, they’re great, but so does everybody in the office because they’re something to see.
Bruce Halle

[On periodically moving his antique tire posters in the headquarters.] So people don’t see the same ones every day.
Bruce Halle

[On Fred Lirette working the front counter while Halle changed tires, unloaded trucks, or washed the floors and windows.] When I was busy, Fred [Lirette] would talk to people. He knew a lot of people in town, and that was a plus for me.
Bruce Halle

[When he wasn’t at work or in class.] I was always dozing.
Bruce Halle

[His business plan in 1961] Sell five tires a day. [In 2002 he was selling 50,000 a day.]
Bruce Halle

[On closing his battery operation that he had done a test run for one year and concentrating on selling wheels and tires.] Stick with what we do best.
Bruce Halle



Everyone has an unbreakable contract to pay forward…
Bruce Halle

I started with only six tires.
Bruce Halle


Bonus

I think what makes Bruce so remarkable is that he manages to have his employees bend over backwards.
Dianne Halle



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