Natalie Massenet Quotes

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

The mercantile business did not suit me.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

I consider myself a businessman, not a celebrity or a music star. When I'm getting involved with something I need to executive produce it or be a part of putting it together as an investor. I want to play both sides. That's more important to me than just being a celebrity.

In the past, when venture-funded startups told their investors they'd found a profitable business model, the first thing VCs would do is to start looking for an 'operating exec' - usually an MBA who would act as the designated 'adult' and take over the transition from Search to Build.

Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.

I'm a business owner.

I've been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I've invested in others.

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

I'm not into business at all.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

I have always been a business person.