#si

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order. ↗

— John Gotti

#bankers #be nice #fund #managers #media

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#again #business #certainly #damn #damn thing

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come. ↗

— Jack Gould

#always #come #reassuring #something #supremely

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other. ↗

— John Gould

#end #lecture #numb #occasion #other

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed. ↗

— Jack Gould

#commercials #less #likely #more #sex

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold. ↗

— John Gould

#american people #appealed #around #been #beginning

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading. ↗

— John Gould

#anything #copy #everything #eyesight #i

Composing is my life blood. ↗

— Morton Gould

#composing #life #my life

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer. ↗

— Morton Gould

#basically #being #composer #conducting #done

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#bore #divined #enough #just #pleasing