Legacy Client, Hollis makes #341 on Georgia's Inc. 500

Bryan D. Vargo, Catalyst Magazine, January 2005

Founded in 1999, Quickparts has rapidly earned its reputation as the one-stop shop for prototype parts that are not available "off the shelf."  Breaking the $1 million revenue mark in its first year, the company reached $10 million in 2004, and Co-founder, President and CEO Ron Hollis projects 2005 revenue to increase another 50 percent, topping $15 million.

Run by engineers for engineers, the company counts among its nearly 4,000 clients a number of heavy-hitters, including GE, Whirlpool, Dell and Hewlett Packard.  The secret to his company's success, Hollis says, is discipline. 

"Quickparts is a disciplined organization; meaning we do the right things, we do them in the right way and we do them at the right time," he explains.  "It allows us the opportunity to leverage resources better."

For example, disciplined communication is drilled down as a vital function at the departmental level.  Daily huddles among associates are essential to operations, Hollis maintains.  That same discipline is woven into the very fabric of this entrepreneur.  His mantra? "To have the discipline to be better today than I was yesterday."

"I want to be the world's greatest business owner ever," he says.  "So everything I do is [geared toward] building an organization that can grow and one day be part of a world-changing organization."

That's a lofty goal.  "The bigger you get the harder it is to move those numbers," Hollis acknowledges.  "We've tried to build an organization that is suited to that growth - meaning we try not to grow too fast, but we don't want to grow too slow either."