I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Nobody’s indispensable.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.