Joe Polish interview
ILoveMarketing.com podcast creator Joe Polish interviews Branson:
I’m not sure that somebody would know they’re an entrepreneur from the beginning, they’ll have a desire a difference to other people’s lives and they’ll see that something’s frustrating them, there’s a gap in the market and they’ll believe they can do it better themselves, and they’ll fill that gap in the market.
Esquire interview
Huntsman talks about troops from the United States withdrawing from Afghanistan:
If you can’t define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we’re wasting our money, and we’re wasting our strategic resources.It’s a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it’s now or years from now, we’ll have an incendiary situation… Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don’t think that serves our strategic interests.
The Art of Wrestling interview
Kendrick is a guest on The Art of Wrestling to discuss success in wrestling.
Do I go out there my whole life and think I’m a bad wrestler because I couldn’t make it in WWE or do I see there are two people who don’t like me? Dixie Carter and Vince McMahon. The people in ROH like me.
New York Times profile
Carter is profiled in NYT’s Dealbook. He talks about the upcoming launch of Backplane and the convergence of music and technology.
Technology has long been the driver of growth in the music business from the invention of lacquers, eight-track players, vinyl, cassettes and CDs. In order to continue the growth we have to go back to embracing technology and the way that people choose to consume music.
Huffington Post interview
Corcoran talks about two key moments in her business career. She realized there was more money in selling than renting:
One was when I accidentally sold an apartment rather than renting it. I was just planning to rent the apartment when the young engineer said that he wanted to buy, that’s what got me in the sales business. It wasn’t a big plan.
She later made enough profit to buy her parents cars:
The other wonderful thing that happened was one year I actually had $80,000 in profits. Probably had maybe 500 salespeople and I thought to myself, ‘I’ve got enough money to buy my mother and my father a new car.’ So, I bought him a Lincoln Continental — hey, what the heck, my dad dreamt about it his whole life — and I replaced my mother’s old rickety, old blue whatever-the-heck-it-was. And so, the idea that you could buy each of your parents a new car in one week and have it delivered was mindboggling, and I ended up going, ‘Whoa, maybe my business is actually a business.’
Esquire interview
Keller talks about the difficulties of being an executive editor for The New York Times:
There’s a lot of stuff they don’t teach you in the mythical editors’ school. They don’t teach you that you’re going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management. It’s been a fair amount of that — every kind of crisis you can imagine, starting with a crisis of morale and credibility that I inherited.
Mixergy interview
Corcoran talks about her books, handling rejection, and her advice for entrepreneurs. On how she handles being turned down:
I’ve gotten pretty good at it. It doesn’t mean that I don’t feel the insult. …I just make a habit of making sure that I don’t lay low too long. In other words, I feel sorry for myself. I go, ‘Ouch, that hurt. That bastard,’ or whatever. Then, I just tell myself, ‘I’ve got about three minutes to feel sorry for myself, and let me move on to something else.’
On what’s wrong with most elevator pitches:
I will be the first one to tell someone what’s wrong, even though they’re not asking. Maybe I shouldn’t. But most people are appreciative. Entrepreneurs can’t communicate very clearly what it is they do. … It’s like, I’ll meet so many great entrepreneurs, and I’ve already liked them from the first hello. I liked the handshake, and I go, ‘So what do you do?’ and then for the next minute, I hear what they’re doing. It should be more like 10 seconds, because I’m already snoring out somewhere. I can’t stay with it that long. Already, they’re sliding down the scale of what I think of them, right? Clarity of communication, ‘I sell soap.’ Versus, we’re in the cleanliness business, blah-blah-blah. ‘I sell soap.’ Okay, I got you.
Elle Magazine interview
Helms gives interview to Elle about bad dating advice people give him.
I did get an awful lot of terrible advice from the older kids on my street. This isn’t dating advice, but it will give you an idea of the kind of miss-education I had: I remember the older kids were talking about being hungover, and I said, What’s a hangover? This kid Josh turns to me and goes, It’s when you wake up in the morning and you hang your dick over the back of a chair.
WQAM in Miami interview
Irving speaks about leaving school early for the NBA:
It was a really tough decision for me to decide to turn pro, but it was the best situation for me and my family. If I wouldn’t have come back for the NCAA Tournament for those three games and proved I was healthy I wouldn’t have come out because it was such a small window having only eight games, but getting the opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament and prove that I was healthy and I was still good enough to play in the NBA that kinda made my decision a lot easier.
Harper’s Bazaar interview
Spears gives an interview to Harper’s Bazaar Magazine about her worst fashion moment.
Ten years ago at the Billboard awards, I wore this orange hat and orange bra and orange booty pants and purple fishnets. Oh, and I had an orange jacket on. It wasn’t Halloween. I actually thought I looked hot at the time. But, um, I definitely stood out. I thought it was just a marvelous idea to wear this purple and orange outfit; it was like high school colors. I was a cheerleader for a school I didn’t know. People were talking about it, but not in a good way.
Elle Magazine interview
Lawrence gives interview to Elle about her role as Mystique and her exercise routine for the role.
I knew that if I was going to be naked in front of the world, I wanted to look like a woman and not a prepubescent 13-year-old boy. I’m so sick of people thinking that’s what we’re supposed to look like.
Phylicia Rashad interview
Rashad talks at the record store Amoeba searching through albums for a play she is directing.
I came in here looking for jazz.
Elle Magazine interview
Will.i.am gives interview to Elle about never meeting his father.
I asked my mother about it once, and she said, “Willie, can I ask you a question? Are you happy with your perspective on the world? Are you proud that you’re tenacious and driven? Are you happy how me and your uncles have raised you?” I was like, “Yeah.” She said, “Then you shouldn’t feel like you’re missing anything. I am your daddy. I protected you, and the proof is your happiness with who you are right now.”
Jonathan Fields interview
Fields interviews Corcoran about starting a business, being the only woman on Shark Tank, building a real estate empire, and Shark Tales. On creating demand with marketing:
I learned that everybody wants what everybody wants, and nobody wants what nobody wants
P-Square interview
Williams interviews group P-Square and questions how fame has changed them and their home town of Niagara.
Well most of the time when I go home I feel like Michael Jackson. We find ourselves performing in different countries. People are screaming and things like that, so it makes us feel like come on we from Africa and this happening to us. So I’m glad we are in America maybe we can expect that a lot.
Man on Mars
In an interview with the WSJ, Musk makes the case for an affordable electric car, the likelihood of his company SpaceX sending a man to Mars, and why he isn’t exactly like Iron Man’s Tony Stark.
I’ll put a man on Mars in 10 years
Allegedly bullied
A New York Daily News article claims that Watson was being bullied at Brown which may have been a reason for her leaving the institution. An inside source says that whenever the actress would respond to a question in class, her classmates would shout, “Three points for Gryffindor!” A Harvard student adds that during a Brown vs. Harvard football game, those nearby the actress shouted Harry Potter phrases as her, but she stayed for the whole game.
Where 2.0 interview
Altman tells O’Reilly Media online managing editor Mac Slocum that Loopt is shifting from its focus on connecting people socially:
A big change over the last year has been an expansion of that to connect people to the places around them as well
Art of Wrestling interview
Hawkins is a guest on The Art of Wrestling to discuss WWE and his early start in wrestling.
I knew I wasn’t going to get very for on the independent scene still in school. so I focused more on high school sports and stuff like that. As soon as I graduated I started planning where I was going to go to wrestling school.
Harper’s Bazaar interview
Gaga gives an interview to Harper’s Bazaar Magazine about the success of her single Born This Way.
It broke all the records. Gaga cheers, bopping up and down, adding that what she found most remarkable was that the song attracted new fans. I was happy with the fans I’ve already got. But it opened this new fan base of people who love the simplicity and joyfulness of it.