“You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.” CompanyRecordsShapesModelsStartingTake TimeRecord CompaniesIt Takes TimeBusiness Models Author:Simon Le Bon
“My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.” StillsWantedFatherStarsRolesRecordsRocksDadModelsMy DadRole ModelsRock StarEntertainers Author:Tracy Morgan
“I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn't even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn't do anything extreme.” WayTwoYoungMotherWalksRolesRecordsWeekBirthExerciseModelsExtremesPregnancyRole ModelsTwo WeeksIrresponsibleYoung Mother Author:Anna Friel
“Bentley and Lamborghini have been achieving record sales for years. This doesn't support the notion that these models are suddenly social pariahs. There will always be a place for these kinds of cars.” YearsKindHas BeensSocialSupportRecordsAchieveCarModelsNotionPariahsBentleyLamborghini Author:Martin Winterkorn
“My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.” FactsWould BeRecordsCreationIgnoranceModelsVolumeConstructs Author:Peter Blegvad
“I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.” PeopleThinkingWorldImportantStoriesJobsTermCompanyRolesRecordsGreaterModelsBuiltEntrepreneurPerseveranceTrackEntrepreneurshipApplesThrownRole ModelsComebackTrack Record Author:Steve Case
“Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And not one ounce of attention to the descendants of that idea, which came out of academic economics and went into corporate finance and morphed into such obscenities as the capital asset pricing model, which we also paid no attention to. I think you'd have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven-percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks.” ThinkingBelieveHas BeensIdeasHardWholeFormAttentionRecordsTheoryModelsEconomicsPaidSevenInvestingTeethFinanceCorporateFairyAssetsAcademicEfficientPercentagesDescendantsObscenityPricingVolatilityTooth FairyEfficient Markets Author:Charlie Munger
“The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.” PeopleKindWarFacesDiesFallGamesSimpleDecisionRecordsEffectsRocksExampleListeningEatingModelsAll KindsBoredBombsThrownShelvesFalling OffAnorexicsDecisions We MakeDomino Effect Author:Leo Lionni
“I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about how to go about in the record business you would get 5 years ago is no longer valid. Everything is changing very rapidly and there is an increased sense of anger and despair among artists that are not major-selling megastars.” IfsKnowsYearsArtistRecordsPiecesAdviceRight NowDespairMajorsModelsYears AgoSelling Author:Olof Arnalds
“A visit to the hood through a record, or through a video, or through a film, is a lot safer than actually visiting the people in real life. It became a business model. It became a revenue engine that, you know, you can get to the hood without ever going there.” PeopleKnowsRealFilmRecordsModelsReal LifeVideoEnginesRevenueVisitingHoodBusiness Models Author:Chuck D
“My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.” StillsWantedFatherStarsRolesRecordsRocksDadModelsMy DadRole ModelsRock StarEntertainers Author:Tracy Morgan
“If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.” IfsKindWould BeMillionsRecordsModelsSellsVersionsLuxuryTeenagerIf I Could Author:Alanis Morissette