Macklemore Quotes

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

I care about music and money. I'm an artist first.

With social media, the gatekeepers are our followers. It has opened so many doors for me not only musically, but fashion-wise as well.

It's stressful when you run a company.

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

My advice, it's get involved in any and every aspect of the business that affords itself to you.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

Economics comes easily to me, and we all seek out what we do well in life. I had in mind becoming a businessman. And I was good at logic and reasoning; figures were comfortable inside my head.

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

One of the biggest things about being an entrepreneur is discovering your own management style. You can learn from others and try to emulate what they are doing, but at the end of the day, your inherent personality - how you deal with events and situations - comes to the forefront.