Pastoral Resources

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.

And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity.