Nikki Sixx Quotes

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

No one can predict the future, but what I do know is that myself and my team work hard every day to make sure that my vision, my sound, and my brand reach their full potential.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art.

Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.

I want to make videos that, if I didn't know myself, I'd want to watch. As long as I'm making myself laugh, I'm usually having a good time. That's how I know I've made a video that I'm proud of: I've made myself laugh.

I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get involved in these policy discussions and producing discussions and, frankly, the financial discussions.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.

I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.

A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

The long view counts.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

… good luck and good timing are huge components of outsized success in entrepreneurial endeavors. Lots of things have to go right, and the planets have to align; that certainly happened in Amazon’s case. Our timing turned out to be very good. And so you can’t sit down to write a business plan and say you’re going to build a multibillion-dollar corporation; that’s unrealistic.

It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.

Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.

I always say I'm an artist with the soul of a realtor.

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.