J Lo's Quotes in WSJ. Magazine's November 2020 Issue
Jennifer Lopez on How Her "Twin Soul" Alex Rodriguez Inspires Her Business Acumen
![On shifting her business strategy: "I had been challenging [manager] Benny [Medina] for a while on our business stuff because I just felt like we weren't doing it right. I realized this when I sat down with my perfume company and they showed me all these numbers. And they said to me, 'We've made a billion dollars.' . . . And then they said, 'We have a plan to get to $2 billion and this is how we're going to do it and we want to re-sign you.' I'm sitting there going, 'You made a billion dollars? I came up with the perfume. I came up with the name. I'm marketing it. It's my face in the ads. I didn't make that kind of money. Where is the billion dollars?"
On managing her career: "There's the entertainment silo. There's the investment silo. There's the building businesses silo. And in the entertainment silo, there's a producing silo, an acting silo, a performing silo and the music silo. And everything needs to be managed and looked after properly, right?"](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/DVWzdq0fCnQZpJcH5bNH7gyS7yI/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2020/11/18/004/n/1922398/e61199e90b8a9718_JL_WM-3/i/On-shifting-her-business-strategy-I-had-been-challenging-manager.jpg "On shifting her business strategy: \"I had been challenging [manager] Benny [Medina] for a while on our business stuff because I just felt like we weren't doing it right. I realized this when I sat down with my perfume company and they showed me all these numbers. And they said to me, 'We've made a billion dollars.' . . . And then they said, 'We have a plan to get to $2 billion and this is how we're going to do it and we want to re-sign you.' I'm sitting there going, 'You made a billion dollars? I came up with the perfume. I came up with the name. I'm marketing it. It's my face in the ads. I didn't make that kind of money. Where is the billion dollars?\"
On managing her career: \"There's the entertainment silo. There's the investment silo. There's the building businesses silo. And in the entertainment silo, there's a producing silo, an acting silo, a performing silo and the music silo. And everything needs to be managed and looked after properly, right?\"")
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