Jimmy Buffett

“I think they said he made, over his career, I think the number I pulled from like, 2021, he had made over eight hundred million dollars from his tour.”

“You cannot think of yourself as just an artist as just a musician. You will get taken advantage of talks about, you know, yeah, you have a hit song, but the guy that owned the publishing is making all the money”

“Had he left Nashville for New York or Los Angeles, He would have been just another folk singer, but Key West didn't have a Jimmy Buffett and Key West gave Buffett a canvas that no other songwriter had.”

“If your main business is a live traveling show that you're going to do for three or four decades, and you do 30 to 35 shows a year, year in and year out, not missing any show, that addiction is a good thing for his business because that addiction is what keeps…”

“Phish doesn't make money by selling music. They make money by selling live music, and that, it turns out, is a much more durable business model.”

“And so everything he does feeds on everything else. The more he tours, the more t-shirts he sells, the more licensing agreements he has, the more people that want him to promote his products, then he's going to have his own products. And because he's hitting t…”

“And the reason that didn't happen is because at this time the mafia controlled the jukeboxes and they would never pay out a dime. A young Jimmy Buffett gets stiffed by the mafia.”

“If you ever look at The net worth of Warren Buffett by age, something like 99% of it or something like that comes after the age of 50.”

“Jimmy had a fifty-year career. He built a billion dollar fortune. He made personally 30 to seventy million dollars a year.”

“This is in 1985. And one of his friends, who goes by the nickname of Sunshine Smith, was getting foreclosed on our house. And so Jimmy goes up to her and says, hey, why don't we just put up a t-shirt store Put my name on the roof. And if it makes money, fine. …”

“How many of them built businesses bigger than their music? You're talking to what, 10, 15, 20, the number's less than 20. And Buffett is one of them.”

“They did 2.2 billion dollars in sales in 2022. That doesn't include hundreds of other licensing agreements. It doesn't include his four hundred million dollar alcohol business.”

“Jimmy understood at a very young age that you should not try to be the best. You should try to be the only.”