So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?
Things never go smoothly.
My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have. ’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.