Donna Karan Quotes

Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage.

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.

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

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

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.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

A busy schedule can be difficult, but I have the best husband on the planet. He supports my endeavors, and we work as a team.

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

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

Collaboration is an important part of the process, and ego is never a part of it.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

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.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.