L.A. Reid Quotes

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.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

Believe. Believe in yourself. Believe in others. Believe there is positive in everything.

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

Donald Trump is actually doing what Bernie Sanders was billed as doing. He's doing new voters into the process.

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.

Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.

I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn't quite fit with the adjacent part.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.

I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible.

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.