“Dennis Johnson was a wonderful executive I worked with at Showtime. He would always tell me, ‘Don’t let other people make their emergency your emergency.’ Because of the large sums of money involved in the entertainment business, the stakes are high. People try to impose their anxieties on you, but I do my best to stay focused on my own agenda. I’m interested in amplifying the stories of marginalized communities. I manage my business my way.” -Pearlena Igbokwe

“One of my mentors told me to treat every task — every deadline, every phone call, every relationship — with a sense of urgency. This inevitably translates to care, attention, and quality. This has helped Reservoir close deals and beat out competitors time and time again. Early on, it was a challenge to ignore negative forecasts, but we continued buying high-quality assets. In retrospect, we only should have executed more deals.”Golnar Khosrowshahi;