Shawn Fanning Quotes

All lasting business is built on friendship.

We will probably always be in business together.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

Working with someone who's got your best interest at heart can make all the difference.

I have an amazing partnership with Red Bull.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

The reason that the company decided to invest in Tesla was not to target a profit gain. We did it as a means to further a partnership between the companies.

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

Trust is fundamental, reciprocal and, ideally, pervasive. If it is present, anything is possible. If it is absent, nothing is possible. The best leaders trust their followers with the truth, and you know what happens as a result? Their followers trust them back. With that bond, they can do big, hard things together, changing the world for the better.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.

No matter what you're doing, whether you have a business with someone, a band with someone, when you feel confident that your idea is going to be embraced, and even if it isn't, that everyone is going to work on it as hard as they can, then that's a great thing.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.