Aerin Lauder Quotes

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.

I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat and go hide by myself with my computer for six months. Then it's fun to come out and put the director hat on and deal with all the things that a director deals with. Then it's fun to just be the producer and, um, not do anything.

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.

The world of the small business owner is all about moving multiple items forward at once, and it's a fool's errand to believe one person can do it all when the shift comes from linear to parallel.

I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I'm on loan to public service.

I built my business, and WWE brought my business in. I want to be successful in my business and, in turn, make WWE successful.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

During the day, I'm a business owner. I'm a teacher and a mentor.

I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum.

I've always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.

To be in a band with the other founding members that never sleep is inspiring. Questlove put out five books a year and deejays every night and still do the same day job that I do, only with more responsibility. It drives me to find a way to juggle it.

I love building a team around me, and being able to support a group of people is one of the best feelings I've come to know during my career; I imagine this is what a lot of business owners can relate to this.

One of my dreams is to become a female entrepreneur with other projects not just related to music.

I am an entrepreneur. Beyond that, I am a mother and part of a wonderful family that is part of a wonderful business.

I'm a business owner.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.