Quotes About Diversification

Bars can't be everything to everyone. They must be everything to someone.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.

Even though I'm already successful and have a career, it is always good to have your eggs in more than one basket.

I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket.

I'm not the kind of person to put all my eggs in one basket.

I've learned, after my first trade in San Antonio, that you don't put all your eggs in one basket in a place.

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I see myself getting into brand partnerships, acting, modeling, and just branching off. I feel like music is my way in the door. And then from there, it's up. I'm going to have so many different things going on. I definitely idolize Rihanna's career path.

One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

I started out with a carpet-cleaning business. Then I had a lunch wagon business, where you pull up and serve food. Then I had bars and then restaurants.

We survived for hundreds of years under the old banking structure. You'd have clearing banks, then merchant banks doing the racy stuff, and then building societies where you'd join a waiting list for a mortgage. But then banks started buying stockbrokers, doing mortgages, and you ended up with these big banking groups doing everything.

It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting for things to happen. You don't want to be the guy Googling himself all day.

I wanted to show people that I can do something besides street music.

The best way to become a better stand-up guy is to take a break from it and do other things.

We like to produce other shows that don't have us in it, that's a big thing.

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

I boxed until I got interested in other things. My first car. Girls.

I definitely want to branch into television and mainstream.

I'm interested to branch out to Tamil because I know the language. If Bollywood happens, it will be a bonus, but I'm not working towards a career in it.

Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.