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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently.

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.