Jo Koy Quotes

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.

A good head has one hundred hands.

All of us have an entrepreneur in us.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

I'm a soul maker. I write songs. I'm making cartoon shows. I'm planning on putting stuff out myself on my own, on a TV station online. I'm not limiting myself. I'm doing it all at once.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Don't follow trends, start trends.