The thing that’s confusing for investors is that founders don’t know how to be CEO. I didn’t know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don’t know how to be CEOs, but it doesn’t mean they can’t learn. The question is… can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it? Ben Horowitz Read Quote
Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components. Dianne Reeves Read Quote
Pharrell’s affected everyone through music. To work with someone like that – it’s a gift. You ever meet somebody you can learn so much from, and all you have to do is be quiet and watch? That’s what it was like. I took in how he moves, speaks, how he creates, the whole nine. Shameik Moore Read Quote
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over. Bill Kurtis Read Quote
When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period. James McCartney Read Quote
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn’t get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. Aaron Eckhart Read Quote
We’re full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it’s difficult the first year. Betty Ford Read Quote
I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that. Adrian Peterson Read Quote
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn’t pay electricity. Marina Abramovic Read Quote