Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition.

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

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'm very ambitious when it comes to business.

This mix of willingness and passion made me the businesswoman I am now.

I knew that when I grew up, I wanted to have a business.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

Business is my passion.

Be strong. Don't be a follower. Always do the right thing.

The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things - even hard things - happen.

In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.

I'm not a business person.

I feel like I am an inspiration. That's the word I prefer. I don't believe that I have to be a role model, someone to be emulated.

To cope with today's competition, you need to do whatever you want but with passion, confidence and attitude to match.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

I couldn't care less about big markets. That's not who I am.

When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.

Management has never been the most important thing for me.

My choice of this business, and that I relatively enjoy innovation and research, is greatly related to my father.

If you are a manager at the top level, there is pressure, but you have it because you want to be there. If not, you would do something else.

Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you're extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand.

I am very passionate about this business, and I always have been.