Pastoral Resources

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.