The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
Copy Quote View & ShareFor the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
Copy Quote View & ShareHaving George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Copy Quote View & ShareBitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
Copy Quote View & ShareI believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Copy Quote View & ShareHackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Copy Quote View & ShareI am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
Copy Quote View & ShareOne capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.
Copy Quote View & ShareAlthough it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
Copy Quote View & SharePolitics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.
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