Natalie Massenet Quotes

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.

I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

There's a whole advantage being an executive as an artist.

I've been around a lot of artists who are also good at business, and... one minute they'll sound like an artist, and the next minute, they'll sound like the characters in 'Mad Men.' Jay-Z's a very good businessman, and he talks about it and enjoys it, but he doesn't shift.

As a businessman, if you ask me what I'm proud of, I'm proud of the fact that I made $250 billion under my watch as CEO.

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.

We have some of the smartest businessmen in India, who have created huge wealth.

Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses than the compromise that is politics.

I think I have a pretty decent business savvy, when I give myself room to.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.