The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.
Fashion has never been considered part of culture in Canada, and I think that needs to happen.
People who come to Canada and have big dreams are really achieving something special from an entrepreneurial perspective.
The hardest thing, particularly in the fashion industry in Canada, has been access to capital.
In my early days, fashion was considered a very high risk industry. The failure rate is very high. Trying to get capital and trying to find people who specialize in that industry is very difficult too.
I would say I used to spend 60 percent of my time just to raise capital, when I was growing.
Do you believe in apathy at first sight?
always thought of myself as a loving person. But she was right. I had been a fair-weather friend. As long as she was happy and nice, I loved back. But if she was unhappy or upset, I would feel blamed and then argue or distance myself
I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.
There needs to be structures in place to do something about misrepresentation about hip hop. When awards are given out and the media talk about hip hop, they're confused because they haven't done their homework on it so you have a case where there's an award for the most pop song in the world and it's called 'hip hop'.