Scooter Braun Quotes

It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.

Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Why do you all push us around?

It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

I have built my organization upon fear.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The difference between rape and seduction is salesmanship.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Boys, I've just reminded Hubert that I've got his balls in my pocket.

People don’t willingly cooperate [with a prosecutor] unless you’ve got something to hold over their heads.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

The temptation to misuse public policy is almost irresistible.