Pastoral Resources

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

War is the business of barbarians.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

I am not sure the others are as committed as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. I think there is more business now, and I know it will be impossible to stop this Everest business.

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.