Gloria Swanson Quotes

It seems obvious to say, but I really admire the creative sides of Steve Jobs.

I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

Genius, particularly creative genius, is less about raw intelligence and more about elevated vision.

The trick to playing Steve Jobs? I don't know.

I stood up for what I believed in starting businesses.

The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.

I think Berry Gordy is a genius, I really do, and it's not a word I throw around lightly. But with all that comes the idiosyncratic behavior of a self-made, talented, creative person, and that's not easy to come up against.

I wish I was as smart as Jeff Bezos. He's just a large-brained space alien.

Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s about seeing connections others can’t, seizing opportunities others won’t, and forging new directions that others haven’t.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

A truly great artist has many talents.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.