Taboo Quotes

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

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

He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

Modeling is not something you excel because you are clever but is based on physical appearance, but then you have to be a businesswoman, like, to keep your longevity.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.

I have been in the business for 62 years. It's a match made in heaven.

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.

Career wise, consistency is one of the keys to longevity. When you are consistent people know what they are going to get, and that's the foundation for having a long career.

I want longevity in this career.

You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.

You don't want to have a fast career for two years. You want to have an amazing career for 20 years.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

In a business, you have a vision, and you follow the vision. You have to execute. And then you have to learn how to run a good business. And I think if you look at the characteristics of any successful fashion business, it's all about that.

I want to have a long career.

Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'

The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it is about the actions you take as the leader of your business.

I want to extend my career for as long as I can.

Acting is definitely an incredible pursuit, but on the other side, it's a business, and learning where art meets business was a huge lesson for me. The more you can wrap your mind around that idea - that yes, this is my art, but it's tied into business - the more it helps you understand and move past the failures.

I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.

I'm very lucky and very fortunate to have survived and to still be working after 45 years.

For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.

I want that longevity in the career, so if you don't know how to get it, you trying to chase that high, you trying to continue to chase your dreams and conquer things you never thought you could get. And you just want to get there too soon, so you taking the wrong moves to try and compensate what's not happening.