L.A. Reid Quotes

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.

Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

Find your passion, and it's no longer work.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.

In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

Are you committed to your highest vision for your life or are you just satisfied to dream?

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.

...you never possess a cat; you are allowed to be in a cat's life, which, of course, is a privilege.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.