Top 35 Scooter Braun Quotes

At 22 years old, I tattooed ‘family’ on my wrist to not lose sight of my true goal.

As a music industry, if we remain in competition, then we die. We have to understand that we’re all in this together. Collaboration and synergy, it’s one of the most important things out there.

What you see is what you get with me.

What I do for a living is so high-risk that I try to make sure my portfolio is as conservative as possible.

I was raised by an empowered woman. I married an empowered woman.

There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.

The only real failure is giving up.

My job is to make sure a client doesn’t have any ‘what if’s – to make sure, when you look back, you don’t say, ‘What if I had done this? What if I had done that?’

I said ‘no’ nine times when Kanye asked me to work with him because I liked being friends with him. Then he put me in a position where I couldn’t say no: He just told everyone I was his manager.

Balance in general is difficult, but I refuse to go through life and just have work and not have good balance. I want to be an example, not only to my own children but also to artists and other entrepreneurs, that you can be a workaholic and also be a good husband and good father.

My company motto is ‘Inspire the world to try.’

If you watch Justin’s early videos, I never let him say, ‘My name is Justin Bieber,’ and then start singing – he always just sang. And the reason I did that was I wanted you to feel like you were in the room. Or maybe you were seeing something you weren’t supposed to see.

I don’t know if I’m going to be a manager forever. I don’t know if I’m going to be producing films or television shows.

The biggest pieces of my business are not public. Maybe I’ll tell all the details when I’m 50 or 60.

I’m a camp counselor for pop stars.

There were 10 to 12 years where I averaged two to three hours of sleep a night. There were times when I didn’t go to sleep for two days, but I’d usually crash one Sunday a month for 16 to 18 straight hours, and then I’d be rejuvenated.

When I was 25, I had risked everything to launch Justin Bieber and was a couple months away from losing everything.

If you can help someone become a good young woman or a good young man, they have a better chance of surviving in this business.

My gut is my No. 1 asset. I also like to draw from a lot of people, and I ask a lot of questions. I’ll literally show my ideas to 500 different people and get their opinions, and, in the end, after digesting all their opinions, I just trust my gut.

Sometimes the only way to realize what a foolish purchase is is to make one.

Ludacris is one of the best people in the world, and I’ve known him since I was 19 years old.

My grandfather died when I was 14, and he was in Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. So be grateful for your life because nothing is guaranteed. Everything could literally be taken away from you tomorrow.

The only way you’ll find out something is to fail because you only need one success to be successful.

I’m a 34-year-old man who calls himself Scooter. That describes the vibe.

If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.

I love collaborating with other really smart, incredible people.

If you really love someone, you push them.

A lot of times in this business, we forget that we’re surrounded by a lot of really good people.

I think people will always like intelligent TV.

I think caring as much as we do has been our greatest asset and really allowed us to build such a great company. It might not be conventional, but that’s the way I’d rather live my life.

I believe in karma.

I don’t think you’re selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get so big, sometimes people forget to look at the music.

None of us are made to be worshipped, and when we take that in, we get sick.

My circle includes some of the most influential people in the world. They all occasionally suffer from depression. Our DNA is built to serve and interact, not be worshipped.

What has now become conventional in terms of digital marketing and the discovery of new talent was once very unconventional – and people forget that.