Pastoral Resources

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.

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

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

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.

We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.