“I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.” IfsLongHardEnoughBigsCompanyRecordsLong TimeSellsTargetCool ThingsReally LongBig CompaniesWorking Really Hard Author:Ryan Adams
“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.” KnowsNeedsLongArtistCertainGamesCompanyLong TimeManagementManagersTactics Author:Meek Mill
“You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.” IfsWantLongRunningNumbersCompanyLong Time Author:Amy Pascal
“A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.” MenLongJobsGirlCompanyLateLong TimeGet A Girl Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.” PeopleWayTryingLongHas BeensStillsI CanPlayCertainNextGamesAttentionCompanyLong TimeEdgesEntertainmentVideoNew WaysNintendo Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so. When we have a government where we have people who are up for election at most once every six years for a U.S. senator, that's a time horizon that is much shorter than in a market that a company is looking at 10, 15, 20 years which is a time horizon over which a stock price is typically valued.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongGovernmentCompanySixLong TimeElectionHorizonSenatorsStock Price Author:Peter Thiel
“At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.” ThinkingYearsLongEnoughWholeHandsWantedJobsThreeFeltPayCompanyCollegeLong TimeMouthsBillsTheatreEmploymentThree YearsCashFrustratedGigs Author:Bill Bailey