10 Business Advice From Power (Season 1)

Business advice from season 1 of the Starz hit crime-drama series Power. Learn from the knowledge and experience of Ghost, Tommy, Lobos, and Kanan. It might just keep you out of trouble.

1. On Privacy, Problems, & Priorities

"We lay low, sell what we need to sell, we ice who we need to ice. All business all the time." - Tommy

2. On Ambition

"We all start out small man, runner, corner, cash kid. Question is, what (are) you gonna make out of yourself?" - Kanan

3. On Visibility To Chain Of Command

"You think it bothers them, they don't know who they're working for?" - Tommy

"You think the fry cook at Burger King, knows the fuckin' CEO? They wouldn't know that motherfucker if he walked in and asked for extra ketchup." - Ghost

4. On Workplace Romances

"Don't touch the merchandise, motherfucker!" - Ghost

5. On Loyalty

"Make sure your word is your bond. Never turn your back on anybody, and most importantly, know when to talk and when not to." - Ghost

6. On Disloyalty

"I refuse to tolerate disloyalty in the men that work for me. The moment I detect disloyalty, I cut it out like a cancer. If you don't, it will grow and the whole organization will die." - Lobos

7. On Leveraging Personal Experiences To Understand Your Market

'Well, I'm a black man from the hood. Most of the guys I came up with are either dead or in jail. I live in the penthouse of my building, above the lawyers and doctors trying to get into my club. See, people take you at face value, Simon, me, well I have to transform to meet everyone's expectations, constantly. 'Truth' isn't one thing, because I'm not one thing; you understand? I take all my experience and use them to cater all different kinds of people under one roof. Whether it's the black professional athlete ordering his next bottle of Ciroc or whether it's the wall street motherfucker getting black out drunk on the company's dime. I understand them, I get em and because I get em... I get em. And because I get em... I get rich." - Ghost

8. On Exponential Growth

"RSK has doubled in scope and influence over the last 6 months, what can do that?" - Angela

"Influx of cash, new product, oath..." - Medina

9. On Distance

"I'm offering you a great opportunity to grow, not only to hire more men or to expand your business… but to put more distance between you and the street. That distance is very important." - Lobos

10. On Risk Management

"If we fuck it up, we're only delaying the inevitable. Twice the product, means twice the personnel, twice the exposure, twice the fuckin' risk!" - Ghost