Pastoral Resources

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

Advertising is legalized lying.

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.