Victor Koo Quotes

Calling the new company Live Nation Entertainment is a big statement. Let's make sure we send a strong message from the first investor call.

Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

SK Group will work to be reborn as a group embraced by the public.

The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you to consolidate power and scale and market share. Do we want to be a huge company with a huge impact? If the answer to that is yes, the only way that that happens is by going public. It is effectively a branding event that catalyzes interest. It helps with recruiting, it helps with marketing, it helps with sales. It just helps on many dimensions. I think it's basically a litmus test for the CEO's ambition.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved—commitment to a scenario.

I don’t care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

Politics is about wanting to be loved.

We needed to be uncompromising [with our workforce], to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law

The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, 'Petroleum,' like the word 'Fried,' connoted a company too oily for American tastes.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

Victoria's Secret is entitled to brand themselves the way they want to.

My husband is in branding. He brands places - cities, institutions.

My image is the creation of media.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

I don't want to be 'Brynn from 'The Voice'' forever.

If the public doesn't receive what you say, people can start to build your brand for you.

'The Apprentice' has been excellent for my dad. Before, there was always that kind of corporate, Napoleonic evilness to Donald Trump. Now people see him interacting with normal - barely normal - individuals, and it's like, 'Wait a second. He's a regular guy!'