Emeril Lagasse Quotes

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

I'm a horrible business person.

What I'm primarily responsible for is products. Everything is developed with my personal involvement. Second is client communication. Everything to do with product and consumer is my primary focus. I also deal with everything which relates to investment and partnership. Distribution, finance, administration, I don't do.

Being in the consumer business helps us groom talent in areas like marketing, finance and logistics. We can benchmark our outsourcing business to our consumer business and its best practices.

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

I've had a real business education.

Just about any growth company is going to need smart salespeople, account and project managers, business development, marketing, operations, customer service, content creation, communications, analytics, and social media.

The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.

I am the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Marathon Agency, a new venture with my business partner Steve Carless. It's a management, branding, marketing, and business strategy. I'm in charge of marketing and branding clients like Nick Cannon, Nicki Minaj, and more.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos.

I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes.