My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.
Google has a great product. They've built a great business.
This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.
Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.
You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator.
Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!
