Colm Wilkinson Quotes

When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I learned at a young age that we were going to have to be personable, going to have to be marketable, and going to have to be creative in order to have a race team.

I think I am a savvy businesswoman.

I have never had a business mind.

Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.

I am an actor but might not be smart enough to handle business, so it's always good to have intelligent people around who can look into other aspects of business.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.

I'm only a product like a cake of soap, to be sold as well as possible.

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.

I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else - from any book, from any, like - fighting is an incredible megastore for doing business.

People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

For years people have approached me with great products but have had no way of marketing them.

I've had a real business education.

Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio's politics.

50 Cent is a brilliant marketer.