Quotes About Company

We're probably doing better business than we thought we would do especially considering the disappointing way the record company has handled the album.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forced to... because I was looking for a deal. I didn't have this grand scheme of starting a record company and then morphing into a clothing empire.

Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be the narrative.

When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?

When the record company pays you an advance, it is just that - an advance. And it's at worse rates than any bank would charge you to pay them back.

As a young singer, a record company wanted me to be a rock singer. I told them I couldn't because I didn't understand the music.

I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.

I'm not into 'The Voice.' It's an affair between a television network and a record company.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

There is a common misconception that when you're a singer working for a recording company you get to pick everything you're doing. Very few people have been accorded such a luxury.

I run an independent company, Knockout Entertainment. We've always come out with records that had a concept that impacted really, really, really hard.

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily.

The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

I'm happy to hang out with friends, but I'm not the type who entertains guests, not even at home.

What's happening internally is eventually what will take AOL back to being a growth company.

Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.

It sounds cheesy, but if you are having fun, people will love your company, you will be more successful, and more ideas will come your way.