I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no d...
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.
We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.
The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.
It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.
When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.
No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.
When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.
I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.
I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.
I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
Joy is what people take,happiness is what you make,pain is something you feel and the more you feed it the more it works.
