Jessica Livingston Quotes

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

For entrepreneurs, choosing your co-founders is like a professional marriage. You're going to go through tough times, and you need to remember that ideas can change, but business partners can't.

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.

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

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

My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I said to George, 'Why don't you manage me?' He looked at me, a little bit surprised. Then he replied, 'Sure, Sass, I'll manage you, but it would be even better if we managed each other.' The next morning, we got our marriage license at the court.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

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

My wife and I make an awesome tag team.

Steve took my counsel on everything. He appreciated that I loved business and let me do that end of it. We complemented each other and had a natural, fun competitiveness.

It should be easier to play opposite my wife.

Being a single has different challenges, and being a tag team has different challenges. I welcome them both.

Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life. You have to be able to be husband and wife at the same time as business partners.

The beauty of being co-founders with your spouse is that we run our business and family together.

The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

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.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.