Thread by @Adweek

It's time! 🤩 @Pharrell takes the stage with Adweek's @ShannonL_Miller to discuss his personal and professional accomplishments and how his own brand development process keeps him excited and inspired. #Brandweek 🏝 adweek.it/Brandweek22

I’ve always been ambitious—and not cautiously ambitious.

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

Music has always been the skeleton key that has opened up every door to me. I’ve always remained loyal to music.

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

I’ve experimented in investments just like every other musician. Some are good opportunities, some are very serious lessons. After a while I would only do things that meant something to me, that was a solve for something I was personally going through.

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

“I’m inspired by that which is missing. If you do that then 50% of your job is done, then the other 50% is undeniable.”

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

We all have an individual responsibility in our community. … You can’t do everything. What’s been important to me has been education.

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

The system will have you think that if you’re not primarily a graphemic learner, then you have a learning disability or you’re lesser than. But a lot of times Fortune 500 CEOs are dyslexic or have other [differences], but are hypervigilant multitaskers.
— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

Let’s create curriculum for the way a person’s brain works, and I guarantee you will not have children slipping through the cracks of this traditional education system.

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

Black Americans are 13% of the population, north of 30 million. You wonder why we have so much influence in art and entertainment but there’s not the same kind of weight and wealth and ownership, and that’s because we don’t own enough in this country.

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

"We started Black Ambition because sometimes not everyone needs a seat at the table; sometimes we need our OWN table."

(In partnership with HBCUs it empowers Black business ideas and provides mentorship to ensure their success.)

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

“‘No’ is so much more important than yes because all those ‘no’s make that one ‘yes’ so much more important.”

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

“Authenticity is what I walk in with, and authenticity is what I expect from every brand or corporation that I work with, and if they don’t have that I expect them to be working toward that."

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

“We should be using brands to tow in change at a social level and even with business practices. If you’re not doing that, then you’re part of the problem.”

— @Pharrell #Brandweek 🏝

💡 @Pharrell accepts his Adweek Brand Visionary award from Adweek's @ShannonL_Miller and Juliette Morris.

#Brandweek 🏝

Read Adweek's cover story celebrating Pharrell's massive impact in the music industry, and learn how he has extended his fame to a philanthropic and entrepreneurial empire: adweek.it/3qvEeHi

#Brandweek 🏝

🚨 @Pharrell also announced the launch of a new creative advocacy agency called Mighty Dream, collaborating with @EdelmanPR for the effort. adweek.it/3Buvc2n